Marsha
Marsha was given to 14 girls in 2025, #7,747 among girls’ names; 104,442 Americans have been recorded with it since 1908 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 79,000 Americans named Marsha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (76% of everyone recorded); the median is 71 years old and half are between 61 and 76.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marsha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Marsha mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Marsha is “a female given name from Latin, variant of Marcia.”
/ˈmɑɹʃə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Marsha?
#7,747 among girls’ names, 2025
Marsha fell from #6,630 in 2015 to #7,747 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 10.6 to 8.7 per million.
5,590 babies in 1952, the peak
Marsha peaked in 1952, when 5,590 babies were given it (5,583 girls, #75 among girls’ names). The 14 births of 2025 are under 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,747 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,127 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 16 | #7,136 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,175 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,795 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,815 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 24 | #5,400 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,558 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,307 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,736 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (116)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 19 | #6,630 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,915 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,250 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,348 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 27 | #5,152 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,312 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,829 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 25 | #5,685 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 31 | #4,763 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 36 | #4,121 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 40 | #3,697 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 29 | #4,662 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 33 | #4,081 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 42 | #3,310 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 41 | #3,345 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 41 | #3,313 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 62 | #2,387 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 65 | #2,209 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 60 | #2,275 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 82 | #1,799 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 70 | #1,963 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 90 | #1,666 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 107 | #1,490 | 0.06 |
| 1992 | 134 | #1,277 | 0.07 |
| 1991 | 176 | #1,040 | 0.09 |
| 1990 | 196 | #959 | 0.10 |
| 1989 | 191 | #935 | 0.10 |
| 1988 | 204 | #867 | 0.11 |
| 1987 | 250 | #723 | 0.14 |
| 1986 | 240 | #740 | 0.14 |
| 1985 | 273 | #664 | 0.16 |
| 1984 | 347 | #546 | 0.21 |
| 1983 | 389 | #501 | 0.23 |
| 1982 | 497 | #436 | 0.29 |
| 1981 | 559 | #403 | 0.34 |
| 1980 | 572 | #399 | 0.34 |
| 1979 | 703 | #336 | 0.44 |
| 1978 | 810 | #287 | 0.53 |
| 1977 | 855 | #280 | 0.56 |
| 1976 | 904 | #263 | 0.62 |
| 1975 | 1,006 | #246 | 0.69 |
| 1974 | 1,106 | #231 | 0.75 |
| 1973 | 1,134 | #222 | 0.78 |
| 1972 | 1,210 | #229 | 0.80 |
| 1971 | 1,305 | #227 | 0.78 |
| 1970 | 1,382 | #225 | 0.79 |
| 1969 | 1,146 | #256 | 0.68 |
| 1968 | 1,128 | #244 | 0.69 |
| 1967 | 1,317 | #222 | 0.80 |
| 1966 | 1,306 | #232 | 0.77 |
| 1965 | 1,539 | #214 | 0.87 |
| 1964 | 1,782 | #204 | 0.94 |
| 1963 | 1,952 | #191 | 1.0 |
| 1962 | 2,072 | #182 | 1.1 |
| 1961 | 2,161 | #179 | 1.1 |
| 1960 | 2,242 | #178 | 1.1 |
| 1959 | 2,469 | #163 | 1.2 |
| 1958 | 2,501 | #158 | 1.2 |
| 1957 | 2,925 | #144 | 1.4 |
| 1956 | 3,328 | #129 | 1.7 |
| 1955 | 4,061 | #106 | 2.1 |
| 1954 | 4,966 | #86 | 2.6 |
| 1953 | 5,131 | #83 | 2.7 |
| 1952 | 5,583 | #75 | 3.0 |
| 1951 | 5,188 | #76 | 2.9 |
| 1950 | 5,400 | #68 | 3.2 |
| 1949 | 4,611 | #79 | 2.7 |
| 1948 | 4,725 | #76 | 2.8 |
| 1947 | 4,339 | #88 | 2.4 |
| 1946 | 3,611 | #98 | 2.3 |
| 1945 | 2,424 | #113 | 1.9 |
| 1944 | 2,399 | #111 | 1.8 |
| 1943 | 2,100 | #132 | 1.5 |
| 1942 | 1,570 | #156 | 1.2 |
| 1941 | 895 | #203 | 0.74 |
| 1940 | 740 | #229 | 0.65 |
| 1939 | 557 | #262 | 0.51 |
| 1938 | 619 | #254 | 0.56 |
| 1937 | 561 | #261 | 0.53 |
| 1936 | 328 | #349 | 0.32 |
| 1935 | 143 | #537 | 0.14 |
| 1934 | 81 | #741 | 0.08 |
| 1933 | 73 | #779 | 0.07 |
| 1932 | 48 | #1,025 | 0.04 |
| 1931 | 59 | #907 | 0.06 |
| 1930 | 46 | #1,097 | 0.04 |
| 1929 | 38 | #1,217 | 0.03 |
| 1928 | 36 | #1,280 | 0.03 |
| 1927 | 33 | #1,415 | 0.03 |
| 1926 | 37 | #1,296 | 0.03 |
| 1925 | 38 | #1,283 | 0.03 |
| 1924 | 23 | #1,847 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 29 | #1,545 | 0.02 |
| 1922 | 27 | #1,634 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 25 | #1,753 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 18 | #2,138 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 21 | #1,834 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 23 | #1,737 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 19 | #1,889 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 20 | #1,777 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 11 | #2,642 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,555 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 9 | #2,268 | 0.01 |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,892 | 0.02 |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,650 | 0.01 |
| 1908 | 6 | #2,016 | 0.02 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Marsha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marsha has been given almost only to girls: 251 boys in 116 years of records.
Girls and boys named Marsha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marsha, and how old are they?
79,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 76% of the 104,442 Americans ever recorded as Marsha. The median Marsha alive today is 71 years old; half are between 61 and 76.
The 2020 Census counted 86,245 people named Marsha (86,127 women and girls, 118 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 86,612 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 6,070 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 52,200 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 16,100 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,690 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 587 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 242 |
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 Marsha born?
The states with the most babies named Marsha are Ohio, California and New York, with 20% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 6,964 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| California | 6,961 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 6,561 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 6,454 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Texas | 5,922 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 5,549 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 4,709 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Indiana | 4,656 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Missouri | 3,821 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Georgia | 3,112 | not ranked | 1.1× |
Where Marsha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Marsha is most over-represented in Kansas: since 1910 it was given 1.8 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 Marsha 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 108,257 babies since 1880, Marsha is the most given (96% of them).
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 Marsha
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 Marsha and names like it
- Compare Marsha and MarishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sMarsha peaked in 1952.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marsha since 1910.
- The top names of 1952The year the most babies were named Marsha.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Marsha alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.