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Marca

Girls' name

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Marca has been given to 285 babies in the U.S. since 1935. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1971, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Marca, 1988

1 in 616,000

Marca over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Marca: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Marca means

Marca is a given name.

The naming story behind Marca

Charlotte M. Yonge’s 1884 History of Christian Names includes the exact spelling Marca in its glossary. The entry labels it feminine and points to printed page(s) 135.

The glossary’s abbreviated description reads: “Ger. Lat. of Mars”. This is the historical author’s wording, including its language abbreviations and any proposed interpretation. It is presented as historical evidence, not as a verified modern translation. Victorian classifications and root explanations can differ from later linguistic research.

For Marca, the current short meaning therefore remains unconfirmed. Establishing its modern etymology requires a current reference that documents the exact form and its relationship to the proposed earlier words.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 285 girls were recorded with the name Marca between 1935 and 1988. Its highest annual count was 18 in 1971; its best national rank was #2,823 in 1946.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Marca?

Marca had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1988, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1988
1 in 616,000
6 of 3,694,212 births
Among girls only
1 in 297,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1988
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
426,773 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Marca sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1988 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 426,773 children born in 1988 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marca. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Marcas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Marca was born before 1959 — so the typical Marca is around 66 today.

Median birth year
1959
About 66 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
30.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
36.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
228
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Choose a decade

1950s — 30.2% of all recorded uses (86).

Is Marca rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1971 (18)
Years since peak
54
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,823
1946

Spellings of Marca

Marca is not the most common spelling — Mary is, with 48.3% against Marca's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Marca around the world

Where Marca ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    1961–1961
    #665
    in 1961

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Marca by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#2,823
1946
Peak year
1971
18 that year
First recorded
1935
Last recorded
1988
All-time count
285
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Marca

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Marca

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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