Marsh
Marsh was given to 5 boys in 2025, #13,218 among boys’ names; 414 Americans have been recorded with it since 1882 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marsh by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Marsh?
#13,218 among boys’ names, 2025
Marsh entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #13,218 in 2025.
15 babies in 1954, the peak
Marsh peaked in 1954, when 15 babies were given it (9 boys, #2,880 among boys’ names). The 5 births of 2025 are 33% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #13,218 | 2.9 |
| 2024 | 10 | #8,113 | 5.8 |
| 2023 | 9 | #8,671 | 5.3 |
| 2022 | 5 | #13,625 | 2.9 |
| 1994 | 5 | #9,739 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,761 | 2.5 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,891 | 2.8 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,474 | 3.0 |
| 1975 | 8 | #4,171 | 5.1 |
| 1973 | 10 | #3,353 | 6.4 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 5 | #5,186 | 2.7 |
| 1968 | 8 | #3,272 | 4.6 |
| 1967 | 8 | #3,145 | 4.6 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,252 | 2.7 |
| 1964 | 8 | #3,188 | 4.0 |
| 1962 | 8 | #3,207 | 3.9 |
| 1959 | 8 | #3,186 | 3.7 |
| 1958 | 7 | #3,465 | 3.3 |
| 1957 | 9 | #2,952 | 4.2 |
| 1956 | 13 | #2,334 | 6.1 |
| 1955 | 9 | #2,895 | 4.4 |
| 1954 | 9 | #2,880 | 4.4 |
| 1953 | 10 | #2,650 | 5.1 |
| 1952 | 11 | #2,456 | 5.7 |
| 1951 | 7 | #3,250 | 3.7 |
| 1950 | 5 | #4,008 | 2.8 |
| 1948 | 7 | #3,201 | 4.0 |
| 1946 | 5 | #3,833 | 3.1 |
| 1945 | 6 | #3,204 | 4.5 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,132 | 4.9 |
| 1942 | 5 | #3,879 | 3.6 |
| 1941 | 8 | #2,802 | 6.5 |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,390 | 9.0 |
| 1938 | 13 | #2,060 | 11.7 |
| 1936 | 5 | #3,879 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,180 | 6.8 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,508 | 6.1 |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,011 | 7.7 |
| 1930 | 6 | #3,854 | 5.5 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,340 | 4.6 |
| 1928 | 10 | #2,776 | 9.0 |
| 1927 | 10 | #2,837 | 8.9 |
| 1925 | 5 | #4,649 | 4.5 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,166 | 7.9 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,086 | 5.5 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,437 | 7.4 |
| 1921 | 5 | #4,741 | 4.5 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,388 | 7.5 |
| 1919 | 7 | #3,622 | 7.1 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,571 | 4.9 |
| 1916 | 12 | #2,346 | 13.5 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,128 | 9.2 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,100 | 9.8 |
| 1910 | 5 | #1,762 | 25.7 |
| 1882 | 7 | #807 | 61.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Marsh a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 414 Americans recorded as Marsh, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 5 boys; SSA lists no girls 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 Marsh: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marsh, and how old are they?
An estimated 190 Americans named Marsh and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (46% of everyone recorded); the median is 64 years old and half are between 49 and 72. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 510 people named Marsh (200 women and girls, 310 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 190 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Marsh 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).
More about Marsh and names like it
- The most given names of the 1950sMarsh peaked in 1954.
- The top names of 1954The year the most babies were named Marsh.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Marsh alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.