Meaning not yet researched.
Marsha: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 14 in 2025. Its best rank was #68 in 1950.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #68 in 1950; #7,749 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Marsha in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,749 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1950, at #68.
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Marsha: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 14 girls in 2025. Peak: #68 in 1950 · most girls in one year: 5,583 (1952).
In 2025, 14 US girls were named Marsha, making it the 7,749th most common girls’ name of the year, down 618 places from #7,131 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 16 girls named Marsha in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #68, reached in 1950. The most girls given the name in a single year was 5,583, in 1952. For comparison, it was #6,632 in 2015 and #68 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Marsha in 116 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1908 with 6 babies. In all, 104,442 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 41,636 babies named Marsha.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 177 US girls were named Marsha; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 24. In 2025 that was about 1 in 114,805 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Marcia (133,604 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Marshay, Marshae and Marshai are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Marcia, Marcie and Mary.
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 Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Marshay (771), Marshae (584), Marshai (49), Marshaya (11), Marshaye (7).
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.
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,749 | — | — |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,131 | — | — |
| 2023 | 16 | #7,141 | — | — |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,180 | — | — |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,800 | — | — |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,819 | — | — |
| 2019 | 24 | #5,404 | — | — |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,562 | — | — |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,311 | — | — |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,738 | — | — |
| 2015 | 19 | #6,632 | — | — |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,917 | — | — |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,252 | — | — |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,352 | — | — |
| 2011 | 27 | #5,154 | — | — |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,314 | — | — |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,831 | — | — |
| 2008 | 25 | #5,688 | — | — |
| 2007 | 31 | #4,764 | — | — |
| 2006 | 36 | #4,122 | — | — |
| 2005 | 40 | #3,701 | — | — |
| 2004 | 29 | #4,666 | — | — |
| 2003 | 33 | #4,085 | — | — |
| 2002 | 42 | #3,314 | — | — |
| 2001 | 41 | #3,349 | — | — |
| 2000 | 41 | #3,318 | — | — |
| 1999 | 62 | #2,390 | — | — |
| 1998 | 65 | #2,212 | — | — |
| 1997 | 60 | #2,278 | — | — |
| 1996 | 82 | #1,801 | — | — |
| 1995 | 70 | #1,968 | — | — |
| 1994 | 90 | #1,671 | — | — |
| 1993 | 107 | #1,492 | — | — |
| 1992 | 134 | #1,280 | — | — |
| 1991 | 176 | #1,043 | — | — |
| 1990 | 196 | #961 | — | — |
| 1989 | 191 | #938 | — | — |
| 1988 | 204 | #867 | 6 | #6,956 |
| 1987 | 250 | #723 | — | — |
| 1986 | 240 | #740 | — | — |
| 1985 | 273 | #664 | — | — |
| 1984 | 347 | #546 | — | — |
| 1983 | 389 | #501 | — | — |
| 1982 | 497 | #436 | — | — |
| 1981 | 559 | #403 | — | — |
| 1980 | 572 | #399 | 5 | #6,894 |
| 1979 | 703 | #336 | — | — |
| 1978 | 810 | #287 | — | — |
| 1977 | 855 | #280 | — | — |
| 1976 | 904 | #263 | 7 | #4,744 |
| 1975 | 1,006 | #246 | 6 | #5,215 |
| 1974 | 1,106 | #231 | 7 | #4,458 |
| 1973 | 1,134 | #222 | — | — |
| 1972 | 1,210 | #229 | 5 | #5,481 |
| 1971 | 1,305 | #227 | 8 | #3,840 |
| 1970 | 1,382 | #225 | 8 | #3,718 |
| 1969 | 1,146 | #256 | — | — |
| 1968 | 1,128 | #244 | 10 | #2,843 |
| 1967 | 1,317 | #222 | — | — |
| 1966 | 1,306 | #232 | 6 | #3,783 |
| 1965 | 1,539 | #214 | — | — |
| 1964 | 1,782 | #204 | 6 | #3,884 |
| 1963 | 1,952 | #191 | 7 | #3,540 |
| 1962 | 2,072 | #182 | 9 | #2,976 |
| 1961 | 2,161 | #179 | 11 | #2,645 |
| 1960 | 2,242 | #178 | 5 | #4,398 |
| 1959 | 2,469 | #163 | 8 | #3,188 |
| 1958 | 2,501 | #158 | 10 | #2,750 |
| 1957 | 2,925 | #144 | 6 | #3,823 |
| 1956 | 3,328 | #129 | 8 | #3,113 |
| 1955 | 4,061 | #106 | 14 | #2,195 |
| 1954 | 4,966 | #86 | 7 | #3,348 |
| 1953 | 5,131 | #83 | 9 | #2,836 |
| 1952 | 5,583 | #75 | 7 | #3,279 |
| 1951 | 5,188 | #76 | 5 | #4,062 |
| 1950 | 5,400 | #68 | 10 | #2,527 |
| 1949 | 4,611 | #79 | 7 | #3,199 |
| 1948 | 4,725 | #76 | 8 | #2,938 |
| 1947 | 4,339 | #88 | 9 | #2,799 |
| 1946 | 3,611 | #98 | 9 | #2,636 |
| 1945 | 2,424 | #113 | 8 | #2,685 |
| 1944 | 2,399 | #111 | 6 | #3,328 |
| 1943 | 2,100 | #132 | 7 | #3,134 |
| 1942 | 1,570 | #156 | 7 | #3,111 |
| 1941 | 895 | #203 | — | — |
| 1940 | 740 | #229 | — | — |
| 1939 | 557 | #262 | — | — |
| 1938 | 619 | #254 | — | — |
| 1937 | 561 | #261 | — | — |
| 1936 | 328 | #349 | — | — |
| 1935 | 143 | #537 | — | — |
| 1934 | 81 | #741 | — | — |
| 1933 | 73 | #779 | — | — |
| 1932 | 48 | #1,025 | — | — |
| 1931 | 59 | #907 | — | — |
| 1930 | 46 | #1,097 | — | — |
| 1929 | 38 | #1,218 | — | — |
| 1928 | 36 | #1,281 | — | — |
| 1927 | 33 | #1,416 | — | — |
| 1926 | 37 | #1,296 | — | — |
| 1925 | 38 | #1,283 | — | — |
| 1924 | 23 | #1,848 | — | — |
| 1923 | 29 | #1,545 | — | — |
| 1922 | 27 | #1,634 | — | — |
| 1921 | 25 | #1,753 | — | — |
| 1920 | 18 | #2,138 | — | — |
| 1919 | 21 | #1,834 | — | — |
| 1918 | 23 | #1,737 | — | — |
| 1917 | 19 | #1,889 | — | — |
| 1916 | 20 | #1,777 | — | — |
| 1915 | 11 | #2,643 | — | — |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,556 | — | — |
| 1913 | 9 | #2,269 | — | — |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,892 | — | — |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,650 | — | — |
| 1908 | 6 | #2,016 | — | — |
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).