girls:
98 births since 1919
#5618 (2nd percentile)
boys:
155 births since 1900
#4431 (3rd percentile)
overall:
253 births since 1900
#7486 (3rd percentile)
The name March is the #7,486 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 253 recorded births since 1900. This represents the 3.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,431 (3.3% percentile) for all time with 155 births since 1900. For girls, it ranks #5,618 (1.7% percentile) for all time with 98 births since 1919.
March first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1900 (1900 for boys and 1919 for girls). Birth data for March is available in 36 out of the 90 years between 1900 and 1989 (25 years for boys and 17 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name March has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (61.3% of all recorded births). In 1989, 100.0% of babies named March were boys.
For boys, March reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 1.4% percentile (ranked #510) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 1900, with 31 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1989.
For girls, March reached its peak popularity in 1950, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #668) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1924, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1978.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "March".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that March is pronounced as mahrch, which has 1 syllables.
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