The MARSH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	60,999	494	0.023	226
United States (1880 census)	19,551	270	0.039	391
Change since 1880	+41448	-224	-0.016	-165
Other Countries
Australia	5,258	262	0.032	322
United Kingdom	28,944	172	0.063	630

Top States for MARSH by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	4,883	648	0.014	144
Florida	3,786	490	0.024	237
Texas	3,770	668	0.018	181
Michigan	3,093	284	0.031	311
New York	3,074	523	0.016	162
Top States for MARSH by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Delaware	304	385	0.039	388
New Hampshire	478	347	0.039	387
West Virginia	690	369	0.038	382
Montana	333	239	0.037	369
Vermont	213	411	0.035	350

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called MARSH live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called MARSH represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called MARSH in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a MARSH by picking someone at random in Delaware than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of MARSH

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the MARSH surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the MARSH surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of MARSH in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	860	1.41
White (Hispanic)	817	1.34
Native American/Alaskan	305	0.5
Asian/Pacific	256	0.42
White (Caucasian)	51,855	85.01
Black/African American	6,905	11.32

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the MARSH surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to MARSH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MARSH.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.