Marsha is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Marsha in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Marsha in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Marsha by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Marsha ranks at #5,552. That means there are 5,551 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 100,485 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Marsha. That is 0.03 % of all living Americans.
Who would have thought it? After many years of not appearing at all in the SmartGenius statistics, Marsha reached its highest rank ever in the year 1950 at #68. In other words: 5,410 newborn girls were named Marsha that year. Since then, it has been considered to be a universally popular name, chosen by a large number of happy parents every year. Although the times of its highest popularity are now many decades ago, Marsha is still going strong and has not been forgotten yet. We can only wait and see if there will be a new surprise in store and if Marsha will be able to top its all-time best ranking ever again.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Marsha was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Marsha ranked 6,090 in our SmartGenius statistics. In absolute figures, this means it was given to baby girls a total of 16 times. No one knows what names (or combinations of numbers and letters) will be popular 50 years from now, but given its consistent popularity, there is a good chance that Marsha will remain a universally popular name.
The name Marsha 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 Marsha is apparently especially popular in Kansas. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular women’s names here either, one in 693 women in Kansas is called Marsha. In total, that’s 2,278 women who feel addressed when the name Marsha is shouted loudly across Kansas and who ensure that their name makes it to #177 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 Marsha as the answer a total of 100,485 times. This places Marsha at #331 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 Marsha 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 Marsha 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 Marsha 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 Marsha, you can simply say:
Mouse
Apple
Rocket
Sun
Hat
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Marsha
Marsha
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
M
A
R
S
H
A
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.
M
A
R
S
H
A
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. Marsha sounds like this:
