In 2025, 14 US girls were named Larisa, making it the 7,705th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,410 places from #6,295 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 19 girls named Larisa in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,046, reached in 1968. The most girls given the name in a single year was 108, in 1993. For comparison, it was #8,251 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Larisa in 71 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1951 with 5 babies. In all, 3,458 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 814 babies named Larisa.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 173 US girls were named Larisa; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 21. In 2025 that was about 1 in 114,805 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Larissa (23,498 babies since 1880).
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Latvian and Slovene. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.