Marshay
Marshay was last recorded in 2022, when 7 babies were given it; 771 Americans have been recorded with it between 1975 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 Marshay by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Marshay?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,098, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
44 babies in 1992, the peak
Marshay peaked in 1992, when 44 girls were given it, #2,752 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 7 | #13,098 | 4.3 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,331 | 4.1 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,600 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,841 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,524 | 5.0 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,600 | 5.0 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,626 | 5.1 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,509 | 6.8 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,519 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 13 | #9,053 | 7.3 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 18 | #7,237 | 9.8 |
| 2008 | 21 | #6,486 | 11.1 |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,468 | 10.9 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,747 | 10.0 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,159 | 10.8 |
| 2004 | 27 | #4,893 | 14.7 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,787 | 9.3 |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,207 | 12.8 |
| 2001 | 22 | #5,301 | 12.2 |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,610 | 11.0 |
| 1999 | 23 | #4,813 | 13.0 |
| 1998 | 27 | #4,197 | 15.3 |
| 1997 | 24 | #4,461 | 13.8 |
| 1996 | 30 | #3,685 | 17.1 |
| 1995 | 35 | #3,255 | 19.9 |
| 1994 | 33 | #3,409 | 18.5 |
| 1993 | 39 | #3,020 | 21.6 |
| 1992 | 44 | #2,752 | 23.9 |
| 1991 | 31 | #3,497 | 16.5 |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,616 | 11.1 |
| 1989 | 24 | #4,073 | 13.0 |
| 1988 | 21 | #4,252 | 11.8 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,802 | 7.5 |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,659 | 9.9 |
| 1985 | 23 | #3,684 | 13.4 |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,118 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,519 | 6.0 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,671 | 5.9 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,853 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,841 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,745 | 5.0 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,994 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Marshay a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marshay has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 42 years of records.
Girls and boys named Marshay: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marshay, and how old are they?
An estimated 757 Americans named Marshay and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 21 and 35. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 713 people named Marshay (649 women and girls, 64 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 753 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
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 108,101 babies since 1880, Marshay is the third most given (<1% 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 Marshay
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 Marshay and names like it
- Compare Marshay and MarshaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMarshay peaked in 1992.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marshay since 1910.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Marshay.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Marshay alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.