Marsha
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Latin/Italian; a combination of Maria and Magdalene
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɑɹʃə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Marsha is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Jamaica it is the 34th most common given name.
- JMJamaica≈1 in 1.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- IEIreland≈1 in 2.6K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 3.9K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Marsha itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 515 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
522,265 named Marcia, 2022
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Jamaica, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(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)
Latin/Italian; a combination of Maria and Magdalene. Popularised by Marlene Dietrich.
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Marsha 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 522,265as Marcia | 1 in 405 | 554K | — | 2 |
| CN China | — | ≈440,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Marsha | 13 |
| US United States | #442 | 113,325as Marcia | 1 in 2.9K | 113K | Marsha | 515 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 24,521as Marcia | 1 in 689 | 25K | — | 5 |
| GB United Kingdom | #532 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | 4 | Marsha | 181 |
| IE Ireland | #273 | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | listed | Marsha | 24 |
| JM Jamaica | #34 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Marsha | 23 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 1,011 | 1 in 17K | 1K | Marsha | 67 |
| GY Guyana | — | 923as Marcia | 1 in 813 | 923 | — | 5 |
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; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Marsha Huntb. 1917USAmerican actress (1917–2022)
- Marsha Masonb. 1942USAmerican actress (born 1942)
- Marsha P. Johnsonb. 1945USBlack American queer liberation activist (1945–1992)
- Marsha Normanb. 1947USAmerican playwright, screenwriter and novelist
- Marsha Stephanie Blakeb. 1950USAmerican actress
- Marsha Ivinsb. 1951USAmerican astronaut
- Marsha Blackburnb. 1952USAmerican businesswoman and politician (born 1952)
- Marsha Garcesb. 1956USAmerican film producer (born 1956)
- Marsha Thomasonb. 1976GBBritish actress (born 1976)
- Marsha Mayb. 1995USAmerican pornographic actress
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 58 sources across 33 countries.
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Marsha come from?
- Latin/Italian; a combination of Maria and Magdalene. Popularised by Marlene Dietrich. Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- How do you pronounce Marsha?
- A machine transcription gives /mɑɹʃə/ (IPA) for English.
- 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 are other forms of the name Marsha?
- In the etymology graph, Marcia, Márcia and Marzia are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Marsha have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 522 thousand people named Marcia, more than in any other country we hold.
- What does the name Marsha mean?
- Recorded meaning: Latin/Italian; a combination of Maria and Magdalene.
- How common is the name Marsha?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 1,011 people named Marsha, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
- How common is Marsha compared with other names?
- In Jamaica, Marsha is the 34th most common given name of 21,568 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/marshaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Marsha” — the 34th most common given name in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.