Marcy
Masculine · “of Mars”
Marcy is given to girls far more often — 21,787 girls against 256 boys since 1880. See Marcy as a girl name
Marcy entered the US charts in 1915, peaked at #2479 in 1937, is rarely given in 2025 — given to only a few children a year.
How old is the name Marcy?
Marcy first appears in US birth records in 1915 — 110 years ago. The typical Marcy alive today was born around 1957, making them about 68 years old. About 100 people named Marcy are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Marcy most popular?
Marcy peaked in 1937, reaching #2479 nationally. See the whole 1937 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Marcius to Marcy
The story of Marcy
Marcia and Marcella descend from one of Rome's old family names, and English used both from the medieval saints' calendars. Mercy is a quite separate English virtue name from the Puritan period, common enough in seventeenth-century registers to leave descendants. Marcy served as a pet form of both, and American use rose through the 1950s and 1960s, peaking in the mid-1960s.
Meaningscholars disagree
of Mars; mercy
Read through Marcia or Marcella, the meaning is 'of Mars', from the Roman family name Marcius. Read as a form of Mercy, it is the Latin merces, 'reward' or 'wages', which came through Christian Latin to mean the compassion shown to someone who has not earned it. The two are entirely unrelated.
How the name formed
- Marcius
- Marcia
- Marcy
Related forms: Marzia · Marcie · Mercy
Pronouncing Marcy
MAR-see
Two syllables, stress on the first. Marcy and Marcie are said identically.
Nicknames for Marcy
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1915
- Most boys named
- 192810 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2479reached in 1937
- Change vs 1983
- 0.0%5 in 1985, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Marcy in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Marzia in Italian — related form
- Marcie in English — spelling variant
- Mercy in English — related form
Marcys among us
people named Marcy are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
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Fashion outlook
Marcy sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
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Frequently asked
- How many Marcys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 100 people named Marcy are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Marcy in 2025?
- Marcy is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Marcy with classmates?
- Marcy will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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The most-given names starting with M, all years combined.
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