Marce
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Marce has been given to 280 babies in the U.S. since 1950. 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 1963, with 13 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 60% girls, 40% boys all-time.
Babies named Marce, 2005
1 in 641,000
Marce over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Marce over time
In 2022, Marce went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Marce?
Marce had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2005, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2005
- 1 in 641,000
- 6 of 3,844,258 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 308,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2005
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 444,107 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Marce sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2005 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 444,107 children born in 2005 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marce. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Marces were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Marce was born before 1966 — so the typical Marce is around 59 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 32.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 13.0%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 169
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 32.5% of all recorded uses (55).
Is Marce 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1963 (13)
- Years since peak
- 62
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 27.8% average annual change
Spellings of Marce
Marce is not the most common spelling — Mary is, with 64.3% against Marce'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.
Marce around the world
Where Marce 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 Australia1946–1946#367in 1946
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Marce by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Marce
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Marce
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.