Meaning not yet researched.
Marcia: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 45 in 2025. Its best rank was #74 in 1951.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #74 in 1951; #3,434 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Marcia in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,434 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1951, at #74.
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Marcia: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 45 girls in 2025. Peak: #74 in 1951 · most girls in one year: 5,299 (1951).
In 2025, 45 US girls were named Marcia, making it the 3,434th most common girls’ name of the year, up 743 places from #4,177 in 2024. That is 10 more than the 35 girls named Marcia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #74, reached in 1951. That year also had the most girls given the name: 5,299. For comparison, it was #3,897 in 2015 and #77 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Marcia in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 9 babies with the name. In all, 133,604 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 43,801 babies named Marcia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 384 US girls were named Marcia; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 45. In 2025 that was about 1 in 35,717 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Marsha (104,442 babies since 1880), Marcy (22,043 babies since 1880), Marcie (15,666 babies since 1880) and Marci (14,037 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Marcee, Marcio and Martia are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Catalan and Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Marcee (703), Marcio (384), Martia (383), Marka (254), Marcea (222), Marzia (162), Marsi (123), Marsia (115), Mercia (114), Marceau (51), Marzie (45), Marsie (32), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Marcia in the open dataset we use.
Marcia is listed as a nickname for Marsha.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 45 | #3,434 | — | — |
| 2024 | 35 | #4,177 | — | — |
| 2023 | 34 | #4,249 | — | — |
| 2022 | 39 | #3,869 | — | — |
| 2021 | 35 | #4,147 | — | — |
| 2020 | 44 | #3,478 | — | — |
| 2019 | 41 | #3,702 | — | — |
| 2018 | 32 | #4,418 | — | — |
| 2017 | 34 | #4,280 | — | — |
| 2016 | 45 | #3,499 | — | — |
| 2015 | 39 | #3,897 | — | — |
| 2014 | 47 | #3,401 | — | — |
| 2013 | 36 | #4,133 | — | — |
| 2012 | 44 | #3,622 | — | — |
| 2011 | 47 | #3,441 | — | — |
| 2010 | 54 | #3,104 | — | — |
| 2009 | 60 | #2,917 | — | — |
| 2008 | 51 | #3,302 | — | — |
| 2007 | 77 | #2,451 | — | — |
| 2006 | 77 | #2,430 | — | — |
| 2005 | 70 | #2,495 | — | — |
| 2004 | 69 | #2,465 | — | — |
| 2003 | 61 | #2,628 | — | — |
| 2002 | 65 | #2,458 | — | — |
| 2001 | 77 | #2,143 | — | — |
| 2000 | 93 | #1,849 | — | — |
| 1999 | 84 | #1,887 | — | — |
| 1998 | 91 | #1,748 | — | — |
| 1997 | 89 | #1,737 | — | — |
| 1996 | 102 | #1,560 | — | — |
| 1995 | 117 | #1,408 | — | — |
| 1994 | 124 | #1,351 | — | — |
| 1993 | 188 | #986 | — | — |
| 1992 | 159 | #1,120 | — | — |
| 1991 | 195 | #966 | — | — |
| 1990 | 213 | #904 | — | — |
| 1989 | 212 | #872 | 5 | #8,744 |
| 1988 | 246 | #761 | — | — |
| 1987 | 284 | #661 | — | — |
| 1986 | 277 | #666 | — | — |
| 1985 | 334 | #585 | — | — |
| 1984 | 350 | #544 | — | — |
| 1983 | 357 | #533 | — | — |
| 1982 | 453 | #465 | — | — |
| 1981 | 530 | #415 | — | — |
| 1980 | 535 | #414 | — | — |
| 1979 | 620 | #367 | — | — |
| 1978 | 706 | #325 | — | — |
| 1977 | 715 | #328 | — | — |
| 1976 | 753 | #304 | 6 | #5,363 |
| 1975 | 795 | #295 | 5 | #5,986 |
| 1974 | 957 | #264 | 5 | #5,707 |
| 1973 | 935 | #267 | — | — |
| 1972 | 995 | #266 | 5 | #5,473 |
| 1971 | 1,204 | #243 | 7 | #4,218 |
| 1970 | 1,285 | #244 | 5 | #5,176 |
| 1969 | 1,112 | #260 | — | — |
| 1968 | 1,144 | #242 | — | — |
| 1967 | 1,308 | #224 | 6 | #3,819 |
| 1966 | 1,418 | #214 | 6 | #3,775 |
| 1965 | 1,549 | #212 | — | — |
| 1964 | 1,932 | #190 | 6 | #3,879 |
| 1963 | 2,157 | #180 | 9 | #2,983 |
| 1962 | 2,428 | #168 | — | — |
| 1961 | 2,685 | #155 | 10 | #2,826 |
| 1960 | 2,694 | #156 | 8 | #3,242 |
| 1959 | 3,091 | #141 | 6 | #3,854 |
| 1958 | 3,353 | #128 | 7 | #3,463 |
| 1957 | 3,538 | #126 | 6 | #3,820 |
| 1956 | 4,069 | #110 | 5 | #4,277 |
| 1955 | 4,412 | #98 | 7 | #3,387 |
| 1954 | 4,744 | #90 | 7 | #3,343 |
| 1953 | 5,062 | #84 | 11 | #2,481 |
| 1952 | 5,210 | #80 | 5 | #4,077 |
| 1951 | 5,299 | #74 | 6 | #3,589 |
| 1950 | 4,955 | #77 | 8 | #2,939 |
| 1949 | 4,651 | #78 | 9 | #2,736 |
| 1948 | 4,640 | #79 | 14 | #2,079 |
| 1947 | 4,472 | #81 | 10 | #2,605 |
| 1946 | 3,946 | #89 | 10 | #2,497 |
| 1945 | 3,206 | #88 | — | — |
| 1944 | 3,140 | #89 | — | — |
| 1943 | 2,970 | #96 | 6 | #3,437 |
| 1942 | 2,669 | #105 | 14 | #2,013 |
| 1941 | 2,430 | #105 | 10 | #2,433 |
| 1940 | 2,273 | #112 | 8 | #2,789 |
| 1939 | 2,346 | #109 | 9 | #2,557 |
| 1938 | 2,169 | #116 | 8 | #2,789 |
| 1937 | 1,948 | #124 | 11 | #2,286 |
| 1936 | 1,595 | #138 | 5 | #3,874 |
| 1935 | 1,339 | #149 | 5 | #3,971 |
| 1934 | 1,267 | #157 | — | — |
| 1933 | 1,140 | #162 | 8 | #2,903 |
| 1932 | 951 | #191 | — | — |
| 1931 | 799 | #215 | — | — |
| 1930 | 692 | #231 | — | — |
| 1929 | 584 | #264 | — | — |
| 1928 | 540 | #281 | — | — |
| 1927 | 538 | #287 | — | — |
| 1926 | 487 | #304 | — | — |
| 1925 | 448 | #315 | 6 | #4,020 |
| 1924 | 460 | #312 | — | — |
| 1923 | 492 | #292 | — | — |
| 1922 | 428 | #313 | — | — |
| 1921 | 451 | #307 | — | — |
| 1920 | 361 | #347 | — | — |
| 1919 | 325 | #357 | — | — |
| 1918 | 256 | #409 | — | — |
| 1917 | 208 | #446 | — | — |
| 1916 | 171 | #492 | — | — |
| 1915 | 178 | #463 | — | — |
| 1914 | 132 | #482 | — | — |
| 1913 | 113 | #476 | — | — |
| 1912 | 99 | #480 | — | — |
| 1911 | 69 | #499 | — | — |
| 1910 | 57 | #540 | — | — |
| 1909 | 54 | #512 | — | — |
| 1908 | 61 | #463 | — | — |
| 1907 | 39 | #596 | — | — |
| 1906 | 46 | #511 | — | — |
| 1905 | 36 | #584 | — | — |
| 1904 | 26 | #695 | — | — |
| 1903 | 38 | #525 | — | — |
| 1902 | 31 | #597 | — | — |
| 1901 | 20 | #737 | — | — |
| 1900 | 36 | #586 | — | — |
| 1899 | 23 | #657 | — | — |
| 1898 | 33 | #565 | — | — |
| 1897 | 26 | #608 | — | — |
| 1896 | 27 | #605 | — | — |
| 1895 | 31 | #536 | — | — |
| 1894 | 24 | #603 | — | — |
| 1893 | 42 | #420 | — | — |
| 1892 | 36 | #458 | — | — |
| 1891 | 28 | #493 | — | — |
| 1890 | 20 | #593 | — | — |
| 1889 | 26 | #495 | — | — |
| 1888 | 26 | #497 | — | — |
| 1887 | 18 | #531 | — | — |
| 1886 | 19 | #519 | — | — |
| 1885 | 23 | #444 | — | — |
| 1884 | 20 | #460 | — | — |
| 1883 | 23 | #391 | — | — |
| 1882 | 10 | #621 | — | — |
| 1881 | 13 | #482 | — | — |
| 1880 | 9 | #614 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).