Marsha
Marsha is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 16 births. Its best rank was 68th, in 1950.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 160.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19525,583 births
- Best rank
- #68in 1950
- Since 1908
- 104,176people given the name
The story in the numbers
104,176 girls have been named Marsha in the United States since 1908, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1952, with 5,583 births — 0.30% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 16 births in 2024, against 5,583 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1954, and the 1950s alone account for 40%. It has spent 59 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 9 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Marsha | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 6 | |
| 1910s | 125 | |
| 1920s | 304 | |
| 1930s | 2,515 | |
| 1940s | 27,414 | |
| 1950s | 41,553 | |
| 1960s | 16,644 | |
| 1970s | 10,415 | |
| 1980s | 3,522 | |
| 1990s | 1,042 | |
| 2000s | 342 | |
| 2010s | 217 | |
| 2020s | 77 |
In 1952, its biggest year
Marsha was the 75th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1952 were Linda, Mary, Patricia, Deborah and Susan. See all of 1952.
Names that rose and fell with Marsha
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Glindapeak 1951
- Kathiepeak 1954
- Cathiepeak 1958
- Corlisspeak 1946
- Diannpeak 1947
- Lindapeak 1947
- Daylepeak 1946
- Trudypeak 1947
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.