girls:
104.2k births since 1908
#356 (94th percentile)
boys:
251 births since 1942
#4335 (5th percentile)
overall:
104.4k births since 1908
#655 (92nd percentile)
The name Marsha is the #655 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 104,411 recorded births since 1908. This represents the 91.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 91.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #356 (93.8% percentile) for all time with 104,160 births since 1908. For boys, it ranks #4,335 (5.4% percentile) for all time with 251 births since 1942.
Marsha first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1908 (1908 for girls and 1942 for boys). Birth data for Marsha is available in 114 out of the 116 years between 1908 and 2023 (114 years for girls and 33 years for boys). 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 Marsha has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Marsha reached its peak popularity in 1950, achieving the 90.0% percentile (ranked #68) with 3,071 births per million. The name was most common in 1950, with 3,071 births per million (ranked 90.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Marsha ranks #936 for girls (1.2% percentile) with 9 births per million, which is 0.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Marsha reached its peak popularity in 1955, achieving the 1.4% percentile (ranked #630) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1955, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1988.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Marsha".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Marsha. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Marsha is pronounced as MAHR-shuh, which has 2 syllables.
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