Marce
Marce was last recorded in 2022, when 6 babies were given it; 280 Americans have been recorded with it between 1915 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marce by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Marce?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,722, in 2005; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
19 babies in 1963, the peak
Marce peaked in 1963, when 19 babies were given it (13 girls, #3,735 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | under 5 | 6 | #11,767 | |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,722 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,942 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,683 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,686 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 5 | #6,953 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 5 | #6,983 | |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,426 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,215 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,215 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 8 | #6,873 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,626 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,820 | under 5 | |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,127 | under 5 | |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,120 | under 5 | |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,807 | under 5 | |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,590 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,280 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | 13 | #3,735 | 6 | #3,882 |
| 1962 | 8 | #5,131 | 5 | #4,420 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,291 | under 5 | |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,386 | under 5 | |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,422 | under 5 | |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,867 | 5 | #4,164 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,423 | under 5 | |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,294 | under 5 | |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,571 | under 5 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 6 | #3,606 | |
| 1946 | under 5 | 7 | #3,080 | |
| 1944 | under 5 | 6 | #3,323 | |
| 1938 | under 5 | 5 | #3,848 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 6 | #3,541 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 8 | #2,900 | |
| 1929 | under 5 | 5 | #4,336 | |
| 1928 | under 5 | 5 | #4,513 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 5 | #4,568 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 5 | #4,582 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 5 | #4,707 | |
| 1921 | under 5 | 5 | #4,736 | |
| 1918 | under 5 | 5 | #4,563 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 6 | #3,679 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Marce a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 280 Americans recorded as Marce, 60% are girls and 40% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Marce: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marce, and how old are they?
An estimated 187 Americans named Marce and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (67% of everyone recorded); the median is 60 years old and half are between 50 and 68. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 506 people named Marce (339 women and girls, 167 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 196 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Marce rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 189,592 babies since 1880, Marce is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 173 babies recorded by SSA was a Marce (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Marce
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1910-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Carman | 3,491 |
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Marce and names like it
- Compare Marce and MarciaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sMarce peaked in 1963.
- The top names of 1963The year the most babies were named Marce.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Marce alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.