Marcia is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Marcia is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 girls have been named Marcia. In the SmartGenius ranking, Marcia is #3,413 on the list of most common girls names. In the entire USA, approximately 127,631 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Marcia. That is 0.04 % of all living Americans.
Appearing throughout the time in the United States, the name Marcia is a staple in the country: Girls have been given the name Marcia for more than 140 years, according to official U.S. naming statistics. Marcia is therefore one of only 432 girls’ names that have been given every year since 1880. Even beyond that, Marcia is a very special name that peaked in popularity some time ago in the 20th century. Placed 73 Marcia easily made it into the Top 100 of our SmartGenius stats for female first names and has never been more popular than back in 1951.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Marcia was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As many as 38 babies were named Marcia in the USA in 2022, ranking it #3,438 on the list of the most popular girls' names for that year. However, it experienced its lowest point of popularity in 2018, when it was only ranked at #3,864 of all female names in our SmartGenius statistics – back then only 32 girls were named Marcia.
The name Marcia may not be in the top rankings of the most popular girls’ names, but it is one of the few female given names, along with only 536 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Marcia is apparently especially popular in Iowa. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular women’s names here either, one in 497 women in Iowa is called Marcia. In total, that’s 4,086 women who feel addressed when the name Marcia is shouted loudly across Iowa and who ensure that their name makes it to #115 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common female names in this nice state. If you asked all women in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Marcia as the answer a total of 127,631 times. This places Marcia at #274 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular women’s names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living women across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Marcia as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a quite popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 8.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A and S are more common for girls' names.
With six letters, the name Marcia is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 8.5% of all girls' names start with an M, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the girls’ names starting with M is Mary.
If your name is Marcia and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Marcia, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Marcia
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Marcia sounds like this:
