Marci
Marci was given to 28 girls in 2025, #4,833 among girls’ names; 14,037 Americans have been recorded with it since 1938 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 12,800 Americans named Marci and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 54 years old and half are between 46 and 60.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marci by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Marci mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Marci is “a female given name.”
Variant of Marcy.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Marci?
#4,833 among girls’ names, 2025
Marci rose from #6,627 in 2015 to #4,833 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 10.6 to 17.4 per million.
798 babies in 1971, the peak
Marci peaked in 1971, when 798 babies were given it (792 girls, #331 among girls’ names). The 28 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28 | #4,833 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 28 | #4,845 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 34 | #4,246 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 24 | #5,417 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,315 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 21 | #5,776 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 29 | #4,732 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 22 | #5,717 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,278 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,326 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (86)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 19 | #6,627 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,349 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,246 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 28 | #5,062 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 22 | #6,066 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 15 | #8,150 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,463 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,385 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 26 | #5,468 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 18 | #7,043 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,363 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,400 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 28 | #4,618 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,918 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 25 | #4,772 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,120 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,137 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 30 | #3,883 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 35 | #3,333 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 34 | #3,397 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 44 | #2,760 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 56 | #2,332 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 70 | #1,996 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 99 | #1,565 | 0.05 |
| 1991 | 100 | #1,543 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 126 | #1,292 | 0.07 |
| 1989 | 159 | #1,062 | 0.09 |
| 1988 | 156 | #1,034 | 0.09 |
| 1987 | 153 | #1,015 | 0.09 |
| 1986 | 153 | #1,009 | 0.09 |
| 1985 | 219 | #775 | 0.13 |
| 1984 | 231 | #715 | 0.14 |
| 1983 | 260 | #663 | 0.16 |
| 1982 | 305 | #594 | 0.18 |
| 1981 | 401 | #501 | 0.24 |
| 1980 | 445 | #475 | 0.27 |
| 1979 | 400 | #503 | 0.25 |
| 1978 | 387 | #499 | 0.25 |
| 1977 | 353 | #522 | 0.23 |
| 1976 | 358 | #499 | 0.24 |
| 1975 | 407 | #465 | 0.28 |
| 1974 | 501 | #403 | 0.34 |
| 1973 | 505 | #398 | 0.35 |
| 1972 | 569 | #377 | 0.37 |
| 1971 | 792 | #331 | 0.48 |
| 1970 | 644 | #372 | 0.37 |
| 1969 | 528 | #417 | 0.31 |
| 1968 | 445 | #458 | 0.27 |
| 1967 | 515 | #405 | 0.31 |
| 1966 | 389 | #476 | 0.23 |
| 1965 | 397 | #476 | 0.22 |
| 1964 | 380 | #501 | 0.20 |
| 1963 | 306 | #559 | 0.16 |
| 1962 | 328 | #541 | 0.17 |
| 1961 | 296 | #588 | 0.15 |
| 1960 | 250 | #640 | 0.12 |
| 1959 | 272 | #603 | 0.13 |
| 1958 | 220 | #667 | 0.11 |
| 1957 | 189 | #727 | 0.09 |
| 1956 | 172 | #740 | 0.09 |
| 1955 | 139 | #819 | 0.07 |
| 1954 | 127 | #835 | 0.07 |
| 1953 | 105 | #923 | 0.06 |
| 1952 | 89 | #1,000 | 0.05 |
| 1951 | 74 | #1,086 | 0.04 |
| 1950 | 53 | #1,264 | 0.03 |
| 1949 | 33 | #1,649 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 27 | #1,841 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 27 | #1,885 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 10 | #3,352 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,857 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 12 | #2,714 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 16 | #2,317 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 10 | #3,127 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,076 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,738 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Marci a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marci has been given almost only to girls: 11 boys in 86 years of records.
Girls and boys named Marci: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marci, and how old are they?
12,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 91% of the 14,037 Americans ever recorded as Marci. The median Marci alive today is 54 years old; half are between 46 and 60.
The 2020 Census counted 13,577 people named Marci (13,507 women and girls, 70 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 13,022 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 30 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,560 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 7,090 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,480 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 349 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 313 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Marci born?
The states with the most babies named Marci are California, Pennsylvania and New York, with 30% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,528 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 963 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| New York | 867 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 812 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 658 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 633 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Utah | 604 | not ranked | 4.6× |
| Illinois | 598 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Washington | 430 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Indiana | 351 | not ranked | 0.9× |
Where Marci is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Marci is most over-represented in Utah: since 1938 it was given 4.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Marci with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 190,928 babies since 1880, Marci is the fourth most given (7.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 28 of their 173 babies (16%), again the fourth most given.
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 Marci
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
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 Marci and names like it
- Compare Marci and MarciaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sMarci peaked in 1971.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marci since 1910.
- The top names of 1971The year the most babies were named Marci.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Marci alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with MMost given first.