as a First Name
Transferred use of the surname, in origin a local name for someone who lived on a patch of marshy ground, from Middle English mersche (Old English mersc). It is also used as an informal short form of Marshall, and possibly also as a masculine equivalent of Marsha, by back-formation.
| 6,600th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 928
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Alaska
- has the most people named Marsh per capita
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- marked the height of its popularity
Top state populations
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