Marsha, Marsha, Marsha...

I'm fascinated by which baby names get trendy and which ones fall from favor. We all know that there are some that are so reviled and old-fashioned sounding that they will never fully come back, like Edna, Bertha, and Hildegarde. Sometimes someone will dredge up a little-used name to be cute, and that's not always bad. But it occurred to me that there's one very normal-sounding name that I haven't met anyone with in decades:

Marsha (or Marcia).

Why is that? It's not a weird sounding name.

Could the Brady Bunch really have slowly killed its popularity? I mentioned the name to a friend recently and she right away said "Marsha, Marsha, Marsha!" proving that it's definitely in the pop culture lexicon.

Click this link and look at the popularity of the name over the years (it's the same trend for either spelling). See what you think!

http://babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/lnv0105.html

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