Marcia

girls:

133.2k births since 1880

#298 (95th percentile)

boys:

284 births since 1925

#4302 (6th percentile)

overall:

133.5k births since 1880

#558 (93rd percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Marcia".

1880 2023 18802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
133,240
Peak Births
5,299
Peak Year
1951
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
89.5%
Current Percentile
3.1%
Peak Rank
#74
Current Rank
#918
Female statistics
Total Births
284
Peak Births
14
Peak Year
1942
First Recorded
1925
Peak Percentile
1.6%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#516
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Marcia

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Marcia. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 62.0% confident that Marcia is pronounced as MAHR-shuh. The next most likely pronunciation is MAHR-see-uh, at 38.0% confidence.

MAHR-shuh (2 syllables)
Verified
62.0% confidence
M AA1 R SH AH0
MAHR-see-uh (3 syllables)
38.0% confidence
M AA1 R S IY0 AH0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Marcia. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Marcia, please vote using the thumbs up button.

MAHR-shay (2 syllables)
7 names 2k births
M AA1 R SH EY0
MAH-rih-shuh (3 syllables)
3 names 1.6k births
M AA1 R IH0 SH AH0

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like M AA1 R SH AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.