Marshia
Marshia was last recorded in 1985, when 6 babies were given it; 295 Americans have been recorded with it between 1937 and 1985 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marshia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Marshia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,141, in 1985; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
20 babies in 1951, the peak
Marshia peaked in 1951, when 20 girls were given it, #2,293 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 6 | #10,141 | 3.5 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,746 | 5.0 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,267 | 3.9 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,245 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,136 | 3.6 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,743 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,229 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,615 | 4.0 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,749 | 4.6 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,654 | 3.5 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 6 | #6,137 | 3.0 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,882 | 4.0 |
| 1958 | 12 | #3,671 | 6.0 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,837 | 2.9 |
| 1956 | 12 | #3,618 | 6.0 |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,963 | 5.1 |
| 1954 | 14 | #3,109 | 7.2 |
| 1953 | 18 | #2,565 | 9.6 |
| 1952 | 16 | #2,747 | 8.6 |
| 1951 | 20 | #2,293 | 11.1 |
| 1950 | 15 | #2,736 | 8.8 |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,802 | 8.2 |
| 1948 | 16 | #2,564 | 9.4 |
| 1947 | 13 | #3,007 | 7.3 |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,571 | 5.7 |
| 1945 | 10 | #3,052 | 7.7 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,940 | 5.3 |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,398 | 6.5 |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,106 | 3.7 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,691 | 4.6 |
| 1937 | 6 | #4,102 | 5.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Marshia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marshia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 31 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Marshia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marshia, and how old are they?
An estimated 219 Americans named Marshia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (74% of everyone recorded); the median is 72 years old and half are between 65 and 77. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 306 people named Marshia (299 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 242 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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, Marshia is the fifth 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 Marshia
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 Marshia and names like it
- Compare Marshia and MarshaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sMarshia peaked in 1951.
- The top names of 1951The year the most babies were named Marshia.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Marshia alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.