Marcia
Marcia is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 34 births. Its best rank was 74th, in 1951.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 340.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19515,299 births
- Best rank
- #74in 1951
- Since 1880
- 133,274people given the name
The story in the numbers
133,274 girls have been named Marcia in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1951, with 5,299 births — 0.29% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 34 births in 2024, against 5,299 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1952, and the 1950s alone account for 33%. It has spent 113 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 13 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Marcia | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 187 | |
| 1890s | 290 | |
| 1900s | 387 | |
| 1910s | 1,608 | |
| 1920s | 4,789 | |
| 1930s | 14,246 | |
| 1940s | 34,395 | |
| 1950s | 43,734 | |
| 1960s | 18,428 | |
| 1970s | 8,965 | |
| 1980s | 3,578 | |
| 1990s | 1,362 | |
| 2000s | 700 | |
| 2010s | 419 | |
| 2020s | 186 |
In 1951, its biggest year
Marcia was the 74th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1951 were Linda, Mary, Patricia, Deborah and Barbara. See all of 1951.
Names that rose and fell with Marcia
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Janicepeak 1951
- Rosannpeak 1952
- Gaylepeak 1951
- Georgannpeak 1953
- Glendapeak 1950
- Patriciapeak 1951
- Bonitapeak 1950
- Deloisepeak 1953
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.