# Marsha (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/marsha/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Latin |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /ˈmɑɹʃə/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 104,442 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 251 / 104,191 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 81, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 27 | 5,154 |
| 2012 | 17 | 7,352 |
| 2013 | 26 | 5,252 |
| 2014 | 22 | 5,917 |
| 2015 | 19 | 6,632 |
| 2016 | 23 | 5,738 |
| 2017 | 16 | 7,311 |
| 2018 | 23 | 5,562 |
| 2019 | 24 | 5,404 |
| 2020 | 17 | 6,819 |
| 2021 | 12 | 8,800 |
| 2022 | 16 | 7,180 |
| 2023 | 16 | 7,141 |
| 2024 | 16 | 7,131 |
| 2025 | 14 | 7,749 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 5 | 4,398 |
| 1961 | 11 | 2,645 |
| 1962 | 9 | 2,976 |
| 1963 | 7 | 3,540 |
| 1964 | 6 | 3,884 |
| 1966 | 6 | 3,783 |
| 1968 | 10 | 2,843 |
| 1970 | 8 | 3,718 |
| 1971 | 8 | 3,840 |
| 1972 | 5 | 5,481 |
| 1974 | 7 | 4,458 |
| 1975 | 6 | 5,215 |
| 1976 | 7 | 4,744 |
| 1980 | 5 | 6,894 |
| 1988 | 6 | 6,956 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 8 | 1,914 |
| 1998 | 7 | 2,165 |
| 1999 | 11 | 1,557 |
| 2000 | 3 | 3,912 |
| 2001 | 5 | 2,783 |
| 2002 | 4 | 3,409 |
| 2003 | 5 | 3,099 |
| 2005 | 6 | 2,970 |
| 2006 | 5 | 3,548 |
| 2007 | 11 | 2,085 |
| 2008 | 5 | 3,860 |
| 2011 | 4 | 4,764 |
| 2012 | 3 | 5,876 |
| 2023 | 4 | 4,709 |

## People named Marsha

- Marsha Hunt, American actress (1917–2022)
- Marsha P. Johnson, Black American queer liberation activist (1945–1992)
- Marsha Mason, American actress (born 1942)
- Marsha Blackburn, American businesswoman and politician (born 1952)
- Marsha Thomason, British actress (born 1976)
- Marsha Ivins, American astronaut
- Marsha M. Linehan, American psychologist
- Marsha Ambrosius, English singer-songwriter
- Marsha Norman, American playwright, screenwriter and novelist (born 1947)
- Marsha Hunt, American singer, novelist, actress and model
- Marsha Berger, American computer scientist and academic
- Marsha Stephanie Blake, American actress

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.