Marsha

Where Marsha comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Marsha.

  • Latin
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Marsha through the years
  1. 1908
    First appearance
    #1,862 among girls with 6 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1917
    Marsha Hunt born
    American actress
  3. 1942
    Marsha Mason born
    American actress
  4. 1950
    Peak, #68
    5,400 babies named Marsha, its best rank.
  5. 1958
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #158.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin, variant of Marcia.
Namesakes
  • Marsha Hunt · American actress, 1917–2022
  • Marsha Mason · American actress, born 1942
  • Marsha P. Johnson · Black American queer liberation activist, 1945–1992
  • Marsha Thomason · British actress, born 1976
  • Marsha Blackburn · American businesswoman and politician, born 1952

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.