Marcia

given name · Latin script

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

Marcia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 37th most common given name. Recorded meaning: presumably from the female personal name Marcia, Latin feminine form of Marcius, derivative of Marcus (see Mark).

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 405(measured from records)
  • ECEcuador1 in 689
  • NINicaragua≈1 in 714

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

522,265 people, 2022

#499 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
507 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 405 (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MarciaLatin(measured from records)
МарсияCyrillic(measured from records)
มาเชียThai(measured from records)

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

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

presumably from the female personal name Marcia, Latin feminine form of Marcius, derivative of Marcus (see Mark). Marcia was the name of several early saints and martyrs.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Marcia counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Marcia is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#37522,2651 in 405554KMarcia222
US United States#357113,3251 in 2.9K113KMarcia507
GB United Kingdom#410≈26,000 est.≈1 in 2.6K4Marcia208
EC Ecuador#15224,5211 in 68925KMarcia42
ID Indonesia—≈24,000 est.≈1 in 11KlistedMarcia89
NI Nicaragua#78≈8,700 est.≈1 in 714—Marcia24
JM Jamaica#9≈3,100 est.≈1 in 907—Marcia26
GY Guyana—9231 in 813923—11

522,265 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); INEC — civil registry names; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

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

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Marcia is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name9 spellings in the group

    Also written Marcía, Màrcia, Marcià, Mårcia, Márcia

  • French given name12 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Márcia, Marçia, Màrcia, Marcianus, Marcïa

  • Hungarian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, United States, United Kingdom, Finland

    Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Márcia

  • Vietnamese given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Vietnam, Spain, United Kingdom

    Languages: Vietnamese, Khmer

    Also written Márcia

  • Greek given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Markia, Márcia, Μαρκια

  • Japanese given name2 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Márcia

  • Korean given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, South Korea, United Kingdom, North Korea

    Also written Marsya, Márcia, Marsia, Marçia, 마르시아

61 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(measured from records)

Marcia is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Catalan, first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of marcir

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

  • In Latin, A feminine praenomen.

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

  • In Italian, march

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

  • In Latvian, Maršs

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Marcia Harris, b. 1880Marcia Wallace Peams, b. 1942Marcia Lucas, b. 1945Marcia Strassman, b. 1948Marcia Griffiths, b. 1949Marcheline Bertrand, b. 1950Marcia Fudge, b. 1952Marcia Gay Harden, b. 1959Marcia Cross, b. 1962Emily Armstrong, b. 1986

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(measured from records)

Attested in 85 sources across 42 countries.

Official registers attesting Marcia
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—554K#59
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes no Brasil API (Census 2010 + 2022)—552K#7
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022522K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—520K#36
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020113K#497
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202425K#81
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—2.3K#36
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 20252025923#65
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)2020616—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020168#497
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202545—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)20247—

Reference works 6

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

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Where does the name Marcia come from?
presumably from the female personal name Marcia, Latin feminine form of Marcius, derivative of Marcus (see Mark). Marcia was the name of several early saints and martyrs. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
What does the name Marcia mean?
Recorded meaning: presumably from the female personal name Marcia, Latin feminine form of Marcius, derivative of Marcus (see Mark).
In which country does Marcia have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 522 thousand people named Marcia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marcia.
Where is Marcia most common?
Marcia is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 405 people carrying it.
Is Marcia a male or female name?
Marcia 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.
How common is the name Marcia?
In Brazil, the national register counted 522,265 people named Marcia in 2022, about 1 in 405 residents.
How common is Marcia compared with other names?
In Brazil, Marcia is the 37th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
What are other forms of the name Marcia?
In the etymology graph, Marsha, Marcella and Marzia are forms of the same name in other languages; Marcy, Marcie and Marci are recorded short or pet forms.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

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, “Marcia” — the 37th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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