Marcy
Marcy was given to 44 girls in 2025, #3,499 among girls’ names; 22,043 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 19,000 Americans named Marcy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (86% of everyone recorded); the median is 56 years old and half are between 48 and 65.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marcy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Marcy mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Marcy is “a female given name.”
/ˈmɑɹsi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Marcy?
#3,499 among girls’ names, 2025
Marcy rose from #4,460 in 2015 to #3,499 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 17.9 to 27.4 per million.
1,161 babies in 1971, the peak
Marcy peaked in 1971, when 1,161 babies were given it (1,155 girls, #256 among girls’ names). The 44 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44 | #3,499 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 41 | #3,731 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 39 | #3,885 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 31 | #4,542 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 40 | #3,778 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,976 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 28 | #4,855 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 28 | #4,845 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,468 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 39 | #3,902 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (111)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 32 | #4,460 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 25 | #5,402 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 41 | #3,755 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 29 | #4,921 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,475 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 28 | #5,053 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 38 | #4,070 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 25 | #5,681 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 34 | #4,434 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 32 | #4,534 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 27 | #4,906 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 45 | #3,371 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 38 | #3,697 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 42 | #3,309 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 35 | #3,751 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 47 | #2,997 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 48 | #2,833 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 38 | #3,266 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 48 | #2,639 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 58 | #2,297 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 70 | #1,961 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 51 | #2,484 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 90 | #1,671 | 0.05 |
| 1992 | 107 | #1,481 | 0.06 |
| 1991 | 138 | #1,235 | 0.07 |
| 1990 | 173 | #1,038 | 0.09 |
| 1989 | 158 | #1,069 | 0.09 |
| 1988 | 183 | #927 | 0.10 |
| 1987 | 175 | #938 | 0.10 |
| 1986 | 177 | #913 | 0.10 |
| 1985 | 194 | #841 | 0.11 |
| 1984 | 244 | #689 | 0.14 |
| 1983 | 231 | #723 | 0.14 |
| 1982 | 297 | #605 | 0.18 |
| 1981 | 348 | #541 | 0.21 |
| 1980 | 460 | #464 | 0.28 |
| 1979 | 429 | #468 | 0.27 |
| 1978 | 397 | #490 | 0.26 |
| 1977 | 389 | #490 | 0.25 |
| 1976 | 468 | #428 | 0.32 |
| 1975 | 536 | #383 | 0.37 |
| 1974 | 682 | #326 | 0.46 |
| 1973 | 663 | #333 | 0.45 |
| 1972 | 917 | #281 | 0.60 |
| 1971 | 1,155 | #256 | 0.69 |
| 1970 | 742 | #346 | 0.42 |
| 1969 | 671 | #347 | 0.40 |
| 1968 | 579 | #382 | 0.35 |
| 1967 | 514 | #406 | 0.31 |
| 1966 | 513 | #410 | 0.30 |
| 1965 | 479 | #430 | 0.27 |
| 1964 | 579 | #405 | 0.31 |
| 1963 | 610 | #390 | 0.32 |
| 1962 | 644 | #370 | 0.33 |
| 1961 | 543 | #418 | 0.27 |
| 1960 | 527 | #424 | 0.26 |
| 1959 | 512 | #419 | 0.25 |
| 1958 | 490 | #424 | 0.24 |
| 1957 | 481 | #428 | 0.24 |
| 1956 | 400 | #463 | 0.20 |
| 1955 | 420 | #433 | 0.21 |
| 1954 | 371 | #457 | 0.19 |
| 1953 | 362 | #453 | 0.19 |
| 1952 | 412 | #419 | 0.22 |
| 1951 | 375 | #429 | 0.21 |
| 1950 | 220 | #560 | 0.13 |
| 1949 | 203 | #582 | 0.12 |
| 1948 | 145 | #693 | 0.09 |
| 1947 | 154 | #676 | 0.09 |
| 1946 | 134 | #696 | 0.09 |
| 1945 | 116 | #694 | 0.09 |
| 1944 | 86 | #822 | 0.06 |
| 1943 | 86 | #842 | 0.06 |
| 1942 | 59 | #1,020 | 0.04 |
| 1941 | 39 | #1,215 | 0.03 |
| 1940 | 47 | #1,052 | 0.04 |
| 1939 | 37 | #1,210 | 0.03 |
| 1938 | 34 | #1,259 | 0.03 |
| 1937 | 23 | #1,612 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 37 | #1,176 | 0.04 |
| 1935 | 23 | #1,588 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 29 | #1,364 | 0.03 |
| 1933 | 17 | #1,944 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 19 | #1,855 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 26 | #1,485 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 21 | #1,787 | 0.02 |
| 1929 | 23 | #1,685 | 0.02 |
| 1928 | 21 | #1,873 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 20 | #1,991 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 11 | #2,981 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 18 | #2,161 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 11 | #3,087 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,540 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,558 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 15 | #2,454 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,741 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 7 | #4,089 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 10 | #3,159 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 13 | #2,504 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,781 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 11 | #2,638 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Marcy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 22,043 Americans recorded as Marcy, 99% are girls and 1% boys. In 2025 it went to 44 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Marcy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marcy, and how old are they?
19,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 86% of the 22,043 Americans ever recorded as Marcy. The median Marcy alive today is 56 years old; half are between 48 and 65.
The 2020 Census counted 19,966 people named Marcy (19,808 women and girls, 158 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 19,639 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 300 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 6,140 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 8,960 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,620 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 572 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 445 |
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 Marcy born?
The states with the most babies named Marcy are New York, Pennsylvania and California, with 32% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 2,088 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 1,852 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| California | 1,727 | #2,981 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 1,341 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 1,255 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Texas | 1,123 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 1,084 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 523 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Indiana | 519 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Massachusetts | 479 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Marcy is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Marcy is most over-represented in Pennsylvania: since 1915 it was given 1.5 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 Marcy 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 188,477 babies since 1880, Marcy is the second most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 44 of their 159 babies (28%), again the second 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 Marcy
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 Marcy and names like it
- Compare Marcy and MarciaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sMarcy peaked in 1971.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marcy since 1910.
- The top names of 1971The year the most babies were named Marcy.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Marcy alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with MMost given first.