Marsh Surname
Approximately 162,282 people bear this surname
Marsh Surname Definition:
This surname is derived from a geographical locality. 'at the marsh' (from residence thereby), i.e. swamp, bog. Low Latin, mariscus; Middle English mersche.
Isabel ate Mershe, Oxfordshire, 1273 Hundred Rolls.
John in le Merse, Oxfordshire, ibid.
Read More About This SurnameMarsh Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 82,246 | 1:4,407 | 488 |
| England | 39,413 | 1:1,414 | 148 |
| Australia | 12,466 | 1:2,166 | 280 |
| Canada | 7,519 | 1:4,900 | 706 |
| Yemen | 5,106 | 1:5,175 | 733 |
| New Zealand | 3,136 | 1:1,444 | 169 |
| South Africa | 2,534 | 1:21,380 | 2,709 |
| Jamaica | 1,903 | 1:1,508 | 255 |
| Wales | 1,676 | 1:1,846 | 180 |
| Scotland | 756 | 1:7,082 | 1,090 |
| Thailand | 682 | 1:103,575 | 14,962 |
| Ireland | 563 | 1:8,364 | 1,169 |
| France | 441 | 1:150,618 | 23,353 |
| Saudi Arabia | 278 | 1:110,992 | 14,774 |
| Spain | 234 | 1:199,795 | 13,704 |
| Russia | 210 | 1:686,300 | 58,624 |
| Liberia | 188 | 1:23,450 | 2,315 |
| Germany | 180 | 1:447,253 | 39,773 |
| India | 170 | 1:4,512,149 | 117,295 |
| Iraq | 157 | 1:223,068 | 4,985 |
| Malaysia | 157 | 1:187,861 | 11,202 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | 129 | 1:769 | 131 |
| Zimbabwe | 129 | 1:119,676 | 16,190 |
| Singapore | 128 | 1:43,029 | 1,626 |
| Northern Ireland | 123 | 1:15,000 | 2,046 |
| Chile | 106 | 1:166,193 | 5,518 |
| Sweden | 100 | 1:98,468 | 7,152 |
| Dominican Republic | 92 | 1:113,401 | 4,751 |
| United States Virgin Islands | 89 | 1:1,240 | 195 |
| Nigeria | 87 | 1:2,036,124 | 71,256 |
| Japan | 80 | 1:1,598,054 | 25,094 |
| Guernsey | 66 | 1:976 | 172 |
| Jersey | 63 | 1:1,575 | 229 |
| Netherlands | 57 | 1:296,266 | 35,624 |
| Ukraine | 56 | 1:812,905 | 81,323 |
| Barbados | 51 | 1:5,636 | 612 |
| Kuwait | 48 | 1:79,181 | 9,331 |
| Papua New Guinea | 39 | 1:209,070 | 28,870 |
| Philippines | 38 | 1:2,664,164 | 134,326 |
| Portugal | 38 | 1:274,164 | 10,086 |
| Denmark | 36 | 1:156,798 | 13,614 |
| Brazil | 34 | 1:6,296,304 | 151,940 |
| Malta | 30 | 1:14,342 | 837 |
| Switzerland | 29 | 1:283,204 | 22,806 |
| Isle of Man | 28 | 1:3,065 | 663 |
| Bermuda | 27 | 1:2,418 | 390 |
| Hong Kong | 27 | 1:271,685 | 3,066 |
| Israel | 24 | 1:356,568 | 29,419 |
| Cayman Islands | 23 | 1:2,778 | 359 |
| China | 23 | 1:59,448,764 | 3,236 |
| Gibraltar | 22 | 1:1,543 | 353 |
| Mexico | 21 | 1:5,910,772 | 31,438 |
| Belarus | 20 | 1:475,053 | 45,383 |
| Taiwan | 20 | 1:1,172,237 | 8,044 |
| Estonia | 19 | 1:69,569 | 12,771 |
| Falkland Islands | 18 | 1:174 | 24 |
| Argentina | 16 | 1:2,671,463 | 118,579 |
| Venezuela | 15 | 1:2,013,605 | 24,362 |
| Ecuador | 14 | 1:1,136,132 | 15,474 |
| Norway | 13 | 1:395,560 | 35,657 |
| Costa Rica | 12 | 1:398,339 | 3,755 |
| Finland | 12 | 1:458,058 | 28,977 |
| Indonesia | 12 | 1:11,020,766 | 390,383 |
| Syria | 12 | 1:1,608,418 | 8,291 |
| American Samoa | 11 | 1:5,069 | 1,123 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 10 | 1:136,398 | 7,940 |
| Sierra Leone | 9 | 1:787,737 | 678 |
| Vanuatu | 9 | 1:29,253 | 714 |
| Afghanistan | 8 | 1:4,019,148 | 21,487 |
| Belgium | 8 | 1:1,437,080 | 92,692 |
| Czechia | 8 | 1:1,329,184 | 91,312 |
| Guam | 8 | 1:20,015 | 3,029 |
| Italy | 8 | 1:7,644,586 | 115,463 |
| Marshall Islands | 8 | 1:6,478 | 1,058 |
| Guyana | 7 | 1:108,889 | 7,175 |
| Lebanon | 7 | 1:805,298 | 15,541 |
| Niue | 7 | 1:231 | 55 |
| Pakistan | 7 | 1:25,520,555 | 84,222 |
| Egypt | 6 | 1:15,322,626 | 62,302 |
| Greece | 6 | 1:1,846,632 | 89,049 |
| Qatar | 6 | 1:393,000 | 55,922 |
| United Arab Emirates | 6 | 1:1,527,046 | 51,993 |
| British Virgin Islands | 5 | 1:6,319 | 600 |
| Cook Islands | 5 | 1:3,636 | 866 |
| Kazakhstan | 5 | 1:3,536,499 | 118,599 |
| Croatia | 4 | 1:1,057,151 | 57,892 |
| Panama | 4 | 1:978,064 | 12,245 |
| Solomon Islands | 4 | 1:145,007 | 19,402 |
| South Korea | 4 | 1:12,810,064 | 2,073 |
| Sri Lanka | 4 | 1:5,202,140 | 12,146 |
| Austria | 3 | 1:2,838,478 | 93,604 |
| Cambodia | 3 | 1:5,162,382 | 10,688 |
| Monaco | 3 | 1:12,355 | 2,088 |
| Tanzania | 3 | 1:17,647,204 | 107,932 |
| Uganda | 3 | 1:13,013,093 | 160,157 |
| Bahamas | 2 | 1:195,876 | 1,708 |
| Colombia | 2 | 1:23,887,036 | 32,612 |
| Cyprus | 2 | 1:442,438 | 9,493 |
| Georgia | 2 | 1:1,872,772 | 35,618 |
| Kenya | 2 | 1:23,089,950 | 83,168 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 2 | 1:2,986,327 | 84,533 |
| Malawi | 2 | 1:8,559,554 | 34,093 |
| Mongolia | 2 | 1:1,412,644 | 16,950 |
| Namibia | 2 | 1:1,204,700 | 16,113 |
| Puerto Rico | 2 | 1:1,775,070 | 6,602 |
| Turkey | 2 | 1:38,910,711 | 171,901 |
| Vietnam | 2 | 1:46,323,027 | 5,235 |
| Armenia | 1 | 1:2,930,180 | 22,770 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Bolivia | 1 | 1:10,616,434 | 17,077 |
| Botswana | 1 | 1:2,186,929 | 30,250 |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 1:6,978,905 | 86,260 |
| El Salvador | 1 | 1:6,343,888 | 8,415 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Grenada | 1 | 1:108,535 | 1,793 |
| Haiti | 1 | 1:10,683,907 | 24,607 |
| Hungary | 1 | 1:9,816,277 | 73,288 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Iran | 1 | 1:76,782,524 | 277,718 |
| Libya | 1 | 1:6,243,974 | 6,186 |
| Lithuania | 1 | 1:3,034,588 | 47,401 |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1:580,542 | 15,155 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Nicaragua | 1 | 1:6,021,090 | 8,768 |
| Northern Cyprus | 1 | 1:319,011 | 10,202 |
| Peru | 1 | 1:31,784,123 | 64,452 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | 1 | 1:55,199 | 1,294 |
| Slovenia | 1 | 1:2,487,675 | 31,128 |
| Sudan | 1 | 1:37,510,195 | 14,259 |
| Tonga | 1 | 1:107,313 | 791 |
| Transnistria | 1 | 1:474,699 | 17,893 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | 1 | 1:34,329 | 862 |
| Tuvalu | 1 | 1:11,188 | 103 |
| Uzbekistan | 1 | 1:30,929,142 | 67,786 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland | 288 | 1:15,381 | 1,950 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 20,827 | 1:1,170 | 129 |
| Wales | 452 | 1:3,470 | 232 |
| Scotland | 72 | 1:51,989 | 3,520 |
| Guernsey | 23 | 1:1,420 | 241 |
| Isle of Man | 11 | 1:4,934 | 490 |
| Jersey | 9 | 1:5,765 | 1,004 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 19,557 | 1:2,568 | 278 |
Marsh (4,045) may also be a first name.
Marsh Surname Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
This surname is derived from a geographical locality. 'at the marsh' (from residence thereby), i.e. swamp, bog. Low Latin, mariscus; Middle English mersche.
Isabel ate Mershe, Oxfordshire, 1273 Hundred Rolls.
John in le Merse, Oxfordshire, ibid.
1567. Married — Peter Foxe and Elizabeth Marshe St. Michael, Cornhill.
1567-8. William Woods and Isabel Marsh: Marriage Lic. (London).
(English) Dweller on Low, Wet Land, a Morass [Old English mersc]
(English) One who lived on, or near, the swamp or tract of soft, wet land.
Parishes in cos. Buckingham and Lincoln. The Kentish family appear to have been in that county from the XIV. cent. The latinization is De Marisco, and the medieval form is Ate-Mershe. The equivalent name Marais is common in France.
(Teutonic.) Maresche, Morass, a fen, a tract of low, wet land.
1. A local English name. 2. Robert, Simon, William, de Mariscis; Roger, Robert, Gervase de Marisco, Normandy, 1180-95; Alpais, Gervase, Robert de M., 1198 (Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniae). William was of Kent, Robert of Gloucester, Richard of Hants, and York, and Lancaster.
A location name in Lancashire.
Marsh. —Distributed over the greater part of England, but rare or absent north of Notts and Lancashire. It has several centres, namely, in Cambridgeshire and Kent in the east, in Lancashire in the north, in Shropshire in the west, and in Wilts, Dorset, and Somerset in the south. Marsh is the name of a parish both in Shropshire and Kent. Lower says that the surname has existed in Kent since the 14th century.
User-submitted Reference
(English) This surname means 'dweller at the marsh'. There is a variant Marsh, contracted from Marshall.
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Marsh Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Marsh Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Marsh (Arabic: مارش, Hindi: मार्श, Oriya: ମାିର୍, Russian: Марш) is borne by more people in The United States than any other country/territory. It can also be found as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Marsh? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 3,447th most widely held family name on a global scale It is held by approximately 1 in 44,907 people. The surname Marsh is predominantly found in The Americas, where 57 percent of Marsh reside; 55 percent reside in North America and 55 percent reside in Anglo-North America. It is also the 109,658th most prevalent first name in the world, held by 4,045 people.
This last name is most frequently occurring in The United States, where it is borne by 82,246 people, or 1 in 4,407. In The United States it is primarily found in: California, where 9 percent are found, Texas, where 7 percent are found and Florida, where 6 percent are found. Not including The United States this last name occurs in 134 countries. It is also common in England, where 24 percent are found and Australia, where 8 percent are found.
Marsh Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Marsh has changed through the years. In The United States the share of the population with the surname increased 421 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it increased 189 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Wales it increased 371 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Scotland it increased 1,050 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Ireland it increased 195 percent between 1901 and 2014.
Marsh Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those holding the surname is primarily Anglican (47%) in Ireland, Orthodox (68%) in Russia, Greek Orthodox (60%) in Lebanon and Orthodox (75%) in Ukraine.
In The United States those bearing the Marsh last name are 14.21% more likely to be registered Republicans than The US average, with 60.98% registered with the political party.
The amount Marsh earn in different countries varies markedly. In Norway they earn 14.83% less than the national average, earning 294,743 kr per year; in South Africa they earn 29.36% more than the national average, earning R 307,404 per year; in United States they earn 0.81% less than the national average, earning $42,800 USD per year and in Canada they earn 0.73% more than the national average, earning $50,044 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Marsh Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Marsh in the Hindi language | ||
| मार्श | marsa | 66.67 |
| मर्श | marsa | 16.67 |
| आर | ara | 16.67 |
| Marsh in the Oriya language | ||
| ମାିର୍ | mair | 33.33 |
| ମାଶ | masa | 33.33 |
| ମାରସା | marasa | 33.33 |
| Marsh in the Russian language | ||
| Марш | mars | - |
| Marsh in the Arabic language | ||
| مارش | marsh | - |
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