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How popular is “Marsha” in the USA?

Number of people named “Marsha” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Marsha” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Marsha” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Marsha” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Marsha” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Marsha” by birth year

This chart shows how “Marsha” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1908 6 0.000012279 6 100%
1910 5 0.000008464 5 100%
1911 8 0.000012417 8 100%
1913 9 0.000007915 9 100%
1914 9 0.000006354 9 100%
1915 11 0.000006003 11 100%
1916 20 0.000010339 20 100%
1917 19 0.000009468 19 100%
1918 23 0.000010594 23 100%
1919 21 0.000009951 21 100%
1920 18 0.000007955 18 100%
1921 25 0.000010709 25 100%
1922 27 0.000011795 27 100%
1923 29 0.000012595 29 100%
1924 23 0.000009657 23 100%
1925 38 0.000016286 38 100%
1926 37 0.000016116 37 100%
1927 33 0.000014228 33 100%
1928 36 0.000015923 36 100%
1929 38 0.000017334 38 100%
1930 46 0.00002069 46 100%
1931 59 0.000028037 59 100%
1932 48 0.000022735 48 100%
1933 73 0.00003651 73 100%
1934 81 0.000039002 81 100%
1935 143 0.000068424 143 100%
1936 328 0.000157876 328 100%
1937 561 0.000263297 561 100%
1938 619 0.000279765 619 100%
1939 557 0.000252786 557 100%
1940 740 0.000321364 740 100%
1941 895 0.000367342 895 100%
1942 1577 0.000577271 1570 7 99%
1943 2107 0.000746486 2100 7 99%
1944 2405 0.000894026 2399 6 100%
1945 2432 0.000916729 2424 8 99%
1946 3620 0.001132912 3611 9 100%
1947 4348 0.001206999 4339 9 100%
1948 4733 0.001370884 4725 8 100%
1949 4618 0.001325193 4611 7 100%
1950 5410 0.001544233 5400 10 100%
1951 5193 0.001409709 5188 5 100%
1952 5590 0.001471825 5583 7 100%
1953 5141 0.001334062 5132 9 100%
1954 4972 0.001249024 4965 7 100%
1955 4075 0.001014924 4061 14 99%
1956 3336 0.000809112 3328 8 100%
1957 2931 0.000697501 2925 6 100%
1958 2511 0.000607416 2501 10 99%
1959 2478 0.000595961 2470 8 99%
1960 2245 0.000540467 2240 5 100%
1961 2173 0.000524588 2162 11 99%
1962 2081 0.00051569 2072 9 99%
1963 1960 0.000495175 1953 7 99%
1964 1787 0.000459666 1781 6 99%
1965 1539 0.000424499 1539 100%
1966 1312 0.000377483 1306 6 99%
1967 1317 0.000387935 1317 100%
1968 1138 0.000336845 1128 10 98%
1969 1146 0.000329754 1146 100%
1970 1390 0.000385414 1382 8 99%
1971 1313 0.000382536 1305 8 99%
1972 1215 0.000386574 1210 5 99%
1973 1134 0.000375884 1134 100%
1974 1113 0.000366119 1106 7 99%
1975 1012 0.000335167 1006 6 99%
1976 911 0.000300234 904 7 98%
1977 855 0.000269165 855 100%
1978 810 0.000255209 810 100%
1979 703 0.000211301 703 100%
1980 577 0.000167513 572 5 98%
1981 559 0.00016159 559 100%
1982 497 0.000141678 497 100%
1983 389 0.000112319 389 100%
1984 347 0.000099462 347 100%
1985 273 0.00007649 273 100%
1986 240 0.000067471 240 100%
1987 250 0.000069336 250 100%
1988 210 0.000056833 204 6 94%
1989 191 0.000049682 191 100%
1990 196 0.000049589 196 100%
1991 176 0.000045183 176 100%
1992 134 0.000034884 134 100%
1993 107 0.00002838 107 100%
1994 90 0.000024209 90 100%
1995 70 0.000019114 70 100%
1996 82 0.000022483 82 100%
1997 60 0.000016548 60 100%
1998 65 0.000017672 65 100%
1999 62 0.000016785 62 100%
2000 41 0.000010847 41 100%
2001 41 0.000010953 41 100%
2002 42 0.000011235 42 100%
2003 33 0.000008679 33 100%
2004 29 0.00000759 29 100%
2005 40 0.000010404 40 100%
2006 36 0.0000091 36 100%
2007 31 0.000007754 31 100%
2008 25 0.00000636 25 100%
2009 24 0.000006282 24 100%
2010 21 0.000005682 21 100%
2011 27 0.000007382 27 100%
2012 17 0.000004648 17 100%
2013 26 0.000007132 26 100%
2014 22 0.000005936 22 100%
2015 19 0.000005134 19 100%
2016 23 0.000006269 23 100%
2017 15 0.000004194 15 100%
2018 23 0.000006542 23 100%
2019 24 0.000006915 24 100%
2020 17 0.000005089 17 100%
2021 12 0.000003542 12 100%
2022 16 0.000004729 16 100%
2023 16 0.000004832 16 100%
2024 16 0.000004807 16 100%

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