girls:
21.7k births since 1915
#983 (83rd percentile)
boys:
256 births since 1915
#4330 (6th percentile)
overall:
22k births since 1915
#1721 (78th percentile)
The name Marcy is the #1,721 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 21,956 recorded births since 1915. This represents the 77.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 77.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #983 (82.8% percentile) for all time with 21,700 births since 1915. For boys, it ranks #4,330 (5.5% percentile) for all time with 256 births since 1915.
Marcy first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1915 .
The name Marcy has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Marcy reached its peak popularity in 1971, achieving the 68.0% percentile (ranked #247) with 659 births per million. The name was most common in 1971, with 659 births per million (ranked 68.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Marcy ranks #913 for girls (3.6% percentile) with 22 births per million, which is 3.4% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Marcy reached its peak popularity in 1928, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #538) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1915, with 10 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1985.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Marcy".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Marcy is pronounced as MAHR-see, which has 2 syllables.
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