Given name & surname · also Latin
March
“born during the month of March”
March is used as a given name and a surname. Interpretations include “born during the month of March” (Latin) and “from the borderland; born during the month of March” (French). These may reflect different naming traditions.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Interpretations include “born during the month of March” (Latin) and “from the borderland; born during the month of March” (French). These may reflect different naming traditions.
Where it comes from
This spelling has been associated with Latin and French naming traditions.
How it developed
From Anglo-Norman marche, from Old French mars, from Latin mārtius, from Latin Mārtius, built from Latin Mārs + -ius.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1900. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
March through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 258
- 155 boys · 103 girls
- Most popular year
- 1950
- 13 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 463 as a first name in 2020; 10,104 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
March’s family of names
March has a related form in Marcio. March has a related form in Marche. March has a related form in Marzo.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named March
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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