Name

Name MARCH

Between 1880 and 2022 there were 14 births of March in the countries below, which represents an average of 0 birth of children bearing the first name March per year on average throughout this period.
On the last available year for each country, we count 0 birth.

Other languages :
En Français

Prénom March
In Italiano

Nome March

Information about the first name March

The first name March has been assigned to:

85.71% to boys
14.29% to girls

The country where the first name March is the most common is:

Denmark

This first name is on trend: Male

This first name has 5 letters including 1 vowel and 4 consonants

Anagrams of the first name March

An anagram is a word that contains the same letters of another word. Here is the list of first names which are an anagram of March : Charm

March in Japanese ^*

Romaji	maaku
Katakana	マーク
Hiragana	まーく
* This is a phonetic conversion, not a translation.
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March in binary language

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Origin and meaning of name March

English

Etymology

From Middle English March, Marche, borrowed from Anglo-Norman marche, from Old French marz, from Latin mensis Mārtius (“the Martian month”), from earlier Mavors.

Etymology

From Middle English marchen, from Middle French marcher (“to march, walk”), from Old French marchier (“to stride, to march, to trample”), from Frankish *markōn (“to mark, mark out, to press with the foot”), from Proto-Germanic *markōną (“area, region, edge, rim, border”), akin to Persian مرز‎ (marz), from Proto-Indo-European *merǵ- (“edge, boundary”). Akin to Old English mearc, ġemearc (“mark, boundary”). Compare mark, from Old English mearcian.

Etymology

From Middle English marche (“tract of land along a country's border”), from Old French marche (“boundary, frontier”), from Frankish *marku, from Proto-Germanic *markō, from Proto-Indo-European *merǵ- (“edge, boundary”).

Etymology

From Middle English merche, from Old English merċe, mereċe, from Proto-West Germanic *marik, from Proto-Indo-European *móri (“sea”). Cognate Middle Low German merk, Old High German merc, Old Norse merki (“celery”). Compare also obsolete or regional more (“carrot or parsnip”), from Proto-Indo-European *mork- (“edible herb, tuber”).

Etymology (Noun)

march (plural marches)
A formal, rhythmic way of walking, used especially by soldiers, bands and in ceremonies.
A political rally or parade
Synonyms: protest, parade, rally
Any song in the genre of music written for marching (see Wikipedia's article on this type of music)
Steady forward movement or progression.
Synonyms: process, advancement, progression
(euchre) The feat of taking all the tricks of a hand.

Etymology (Verb)

march (third-person singular simple present marches, present participle marching, simple past and past participle marched)
(intransitive) To walk with long, regular strides, as a soldier does.
(transitive) To cause someone to walk somewhere.
To go to war; to make military advances.
(figuratively) To make steady progress.

Etymology (Noun)

march (plural marches)
(now archaic, historical) A border region, especially one originally set up to defend a boundary.
Synonyms: frontier, marchland, borderland
(historical) A region at a frontier governed by a marquess.
Any of various territories with similar meanings or etymologies in their native languages.
Synonyms: county palatinate, county palatine

Etymology (Verb)

march (third-person singular simple present marches, present participle marching, simple past and past participle marched)
(intransitive) To have common borders or frontiers

Etymology (Noun)

march (plural marches)
(obsolete) Smallage.

Anagrams

charm

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA(key): /mɑːtʃ/
(US) enPR: märch, IPA(key): /mɑɹt͡ʃ/
Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tʃ

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA(key): /mɑːt͡ʃ/
(US) enPR: märch, IPA(key): /mɑɹt͡ʃ/
Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tʃ
Homophone: march

Proper noun (Hyponyms)

mid-March

Proper noun (Related terms)

Mars

Middle English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman marche, from Old French mars. See English March for more.

Alternative forms

Marche, Mersh, Mearch, Marz, Mars, Marce

Proper noun

March
March
14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 1-2.
Synonym: Lyde (rare)

Proper noun (Descendants)

English: March (see there for further descendants)
Scots: Mairch

General

Proper noun

March (usually uncountable, plural Marches)
The third month of the Gregorian calendar, following February and preceding April. Abbreviation: Mar or Mar.
A surname from Middle English for someone born in March, or for someone living near a boundary (marche).
(uncommon) A male given name from English.
A market town and civil parish with a town council in Fenland district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL4196).

Danish

Etymology

From French marche, derived from the verb marcher (“to march”), a Frankish loanword, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *markōną (“to mark, notice”). The interjection is borrowed from the French imperative of this verb.

Interjection