Marsha

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Marsha is a given name, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Jamaica it is the 18th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Latin/Italian; a combination of Maria and Magdalene.

rarermore common
  • JMJamaica1 in 2K◐
  • USUnited States1 in 2.9K
  • SGSingapore1 in 3.8K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈665K ●

across 10 countries

5 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
465 ●

1.1M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 405 ◐

Brazil

Spellings & scripts●

MarshaLatin · English●1.1M records
מרשהHebrew · Hebrew●3K records
มาชาThai · Thai●250 records
마르샤Hangul · Korean●2 records
মার্সBengali · Bangla●1 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled מרשה in IL Israel, ET Ethiopia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Latin/Italian; a combination of Maria and Magdalene. Popularised by Marlene Dietrich.

Sources 1

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Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Marsha is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil—522,265△8 rec.1 in 405554K—2
US United States#447113,157926K rec.1 in 2.9K113KMarsha465
GB United Kingdom#49944,55244K rec.—4Marsha140
EC Ecuador—24,521△37 rec.1 in 68925K—5
CA Canada#50821,38921K rec.—2Marsha141
AU Australia#77313,90013K rec.—5Marsha114
IT Italy#8016,5156.6K rec.—2Marsha28
PH Philippines—5,9295.5K rec.——Marsha56
DE Germany—4,1234K rec.—1Marsha71
SG Singapore#2242,8252.9K rec.——Marsha27
RU Russia—2,3822.4K rec.—listedMarsha20
JM Jamaica#182,3332.4K rec.——Marsha20

Roughly 522K people in Brazil bear this name (about 1 in 405). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English1.1M84%
  • 47K4%
  • Spanish35K3%
  • German9.7K1%
  • French7.5K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English1,062,55384%
46,9624%
Spanish35,4553%
German9,6721%
French7,4641%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Marsha is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name53K records spelled Marsha2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy

    Also written Marshá

  • Spanish given name49K records spelled Marsha8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Märshä, Marshá, Màrshà

  • French given name8.0K records spelled Marsha3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Canada, United Kingdom

    Also written Marşha

  • Indonesian given name6.8K records spelled Marsha4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, Malaysia, Philippines

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Marsha, Marsha'

  • Portuguese given name5.4K records spelled Marsha194 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Argentina, United Kingdom

    Languages: Portuguese, English, Spanish

    Also written Marcia, Márcia, Marzia, Марсия

54 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Marsha is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Phonetic spelling of Marcia, associated particularly with the American film star Marsha Hunt (b. 1917).

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • In English, A female given name from Latin, variant of Marcia.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Phonetic spelling of MARCIA , popular especially among American Blacks.

    as a word

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

02K4K6K1920194019601980200020205.6K · 1952

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Marsha in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1908–2025
Yearrecords
19086
19105
19118
19139
19149
191511
191620
191719
191823
191921
192018
192125
192227
192329
192423
192538
192637
192733
192836
192938
193046
193159
193248
193373
193481
1935143
1936328
1937561
1938619
1939557
1940740
1941895
19421,570
19432,100
19442,399
19452,424
19463,611
19474,339
19484,725
19494,611
19505,400
19515,188
19525,583
19535,131
19544,966
19554,061
19563,328
19572,925
19582,501
19592,469
19602,242
19612,161
19622,072
19631,952
19641,782
19651,539
19661,306
19671,317
19681,128
19691,146
19701,382
19711,305
19721,210
19731,134
19741,106
19751,006
1976904
1977855
1978810
1979703
1980572
1981559
1982497
1983389
1984347
1985273
1986240
1987250
1988204
1989191
1990196
1991176
1992134
1993107
199490
199570
199682
199760
199865
199962
200041
200141
200242
200333
200429
200540
200636
200731
200825
200924
201021
201127
201217
201326
201422
201519
201623
201716
201823
201924
202017
202112
202216
202316
202416
202514

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 116 years between 1908–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

190019201940196019802000Marsha Hunt, b. 1917Marsha Mason, b. 1942Marsha P. Johnson, b. 1945Marsha Norman, b. 1947Marsha Stephanie Blake, b. 1950Marsha Ivins, b. 1951Marsha Blackburn, b. 1952Marsha Garces, b. 1956Marsha Thomason, b. 1976Marsha May, b. 1995

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 55 sources across 33 countries.

Official registers attesting Marsha
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202086K#613
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—1K#1,286
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—877#2,268
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000332#57,406
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010247#77,522
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020231#86,747
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 20252025178#417
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020118#613
VC St. Vincent & GrenadinesElectoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025)202553#62
GD GrenadaGrenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025202539#94
KN St. Kitts & NevisSt Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026202635#76
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—30#15,789

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 332 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Marsha?
We estimate roughly 665 thousand people bear Marsha (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Marsha have the most bearers?
We estimate about 522 thousand people bear Marsha in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records.
Where is Marsha most common?
Marsha is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 405 people carrying it.
How common is Marsha compared with other names?
In Jamaica, Marsha is the 18th most common given name of 20,217 given names recorded there.
Is Marsha a male or female name?
Marsha is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Marsha mean?
Recorded meaning: Latin/Italian; a combination of Maria and Magdalene.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Marsha” — the 18th most common given name in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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