Entry № 6445 · Latin origin

Marcia Marcia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MAR-see-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Cato's wife ('I'd rather die than leave you')"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Latin)

A name that means "cato's wife ('i'd rather die than leave you')".

Marcia is the Latin feminine of Marcius. Marcia (1st c. BCE) was the Roman noblewoman, wife of Cato the Younger.

Cato's wife. Given to Hortensius and taken back.

The name in its native script.

Marcia
Transliteration
Marcia
Pronunciation
/ ˈmɑːr.si.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Marcia stands.

Marcia does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Marcias before her.

Real people
Marcia
Cato the Younger's wife.
1st c. BCE
Marcia Brady
Eldest daughter of The Brady Bunch.
In fiction
Marcia
Featured in Dante's Inferno IV.

Names connected to Marcia.

The number behind Marcia.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Marcia reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.