Fewer than five US girls were named Marisha in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #1,683, reached in 1986. The most girls given the name in a single year was 72, in 1992. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Marisha in 54 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1955 with 7 babies. In all, 1,547 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 542 babies named Marisha.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 20 US girls were named Marisha; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 5.
Rarer spellings such as Maurisha, Maresha and Mariesha are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English and Finnish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.