Baby name
FADING
🇬🇧 🇺🇸 Marsha
/MAR · shah/
Meaning
“Of Mars”
American phonetic spelling of Marcia, from Latin Marcius related to Mars the god of war; peaked strongly in mid-century American culture.
Nicknames
mar
Vibe
warm
How it ages.
Firmly mid-century American; due for reconsideration as grandma names cycle back.
The cultural moment.
High use in the US from the 1940s through 1960s; rare among newborns since the 1990s.