Marsh

Marsh is the 553rd most common surname in the United States, shared by 59,877 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 4,992.

By the numbers

People: 59,877
Rank: 553rd
How common: 1 in 4,992
Per 100,000: 20.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Middle English

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Marsh described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 79.9%
Black, not Hispanic 12.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Marsh

Othniel Charles Marsh (1831–1899)American paleontologist
Jean Marsh (1934–2025)English actress
Ngaio Marsh (1895–1982)New Zealand writer
Mae Marsh (1894–1968)American actress
Michael Marsh (born 1967)American sprinter
Jodie Marsh (born 1978)English glamour model and television personality
James Marsh (born 1963)British film director
Mitchell Marsh (born 1991)Australian cricketer

People named Marsh with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Marsh

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.