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How popular is the name Marcia?
Births per year, rank history and how many Marcias are alive today.
Marcia (female) is a rare girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 2440th in 2025 and given to 11 babies. This spelling of the name peaked in 2006, when 26 babies were given the name, the 1052nd most popular that year. It has declined since 2006; the 2025 figure is roughly 42% of its peak. Marcia is one spelling of a name also recorded as Marsha; the combined figures below cover every spelling. Common short forms of Marcia include Marcie.
Across all spellings of the name, the Marcia you are most likely to meet is around 19 years old. Half of all Marcias born in England and Wales are between 14 and 30, and there are at least 630 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Marcia - on average, only one in every 500 such rooms contains a Marcia.
How many babies are named Marcia each year?
Includes all spellings: Marcia, Marsha. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Marcia spelling rank?
Where does the Marsha spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Marcia most popular?
Marcia peaked in 2006, when 31 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Marcia?
At least 630 people named Marcia in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Marcia?
Most living Marcias are between 14 and 30; the most common age is about 19.
Is Marcia becoming more or less popular?
Well past its peak: today's figures are a fraction of the 2006 peak, though numbers have levelled off in recent years.