Meaning not yet researched.
Marissa: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 123 in 2025. Its best rank was #53 in 1995.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #53 in 1995; #1,679 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Marissa in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,679 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1995, at #53.
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Marissa: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 123 girls in 2025. Peak: #53 in 1995 · most girls in one year: 6,246 (1994).
In 2025, 123 US girls were named Marissa, making it the 1,679th most common girls’ name of the year, down 184 places from #1,495 in 2024. That is 23 fewer than the 146 girls named Marissa in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #53, reached in 1995. The most girls given the name in a single year was 6,246, in 1994. For comparison, it was #536 in 2015 and #4,585 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Marissa in 80 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1936 with 5 babies. In all, 121,112 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 51,314 babies named Marissa.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,558 US girls were named Marissa; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 507. In 2025 that was about 1 in 13,067 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Marissa ranked highest in Michigan in 2025, at #925 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Marisa (48,773 babies since 1880), Merissa (3,412 babies since 1880), Maryssa (1,670 babies since 1880) and Marrissa (1,438 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Mariza, Maurissa and Maresa are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Rissa.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Mariza (1,142), Maurissa (639), Maresa (586), Marysa (544), Maressa (468), Mariesa (347), Maurisa (292), Marisah (110), Marissah (110), Mareesa (75), Marizza (39), Mariessa (36).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 43 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 8 | #925 | #491 |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,079 | #1,195 |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,187 | #433 |
| Texas | 22 | #1,213 | #541 |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,350 | #626 |
| California | 15 | #1,544 | #402 |
| Florida | 6 | #2,059 | #530 |
| New York | 5 | #2,293 | #658 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 123 | #1,679 | — | — |
| 2024 | 146 | #1,495 | — | — |
| 2023 | 138 | #1,547 | — | — |
| 2022 | 180 | #1,313 | — | — |
| 2021 | 190 | #1,241 | — | — |
| 2020 | 228 | #1,083 | — | — |
| 2019 | 307 | #877 | — | — |
| 2018 | 306 | #886 | — | — |
| 2017 | 433 | #678 | — | — |
| 2016 | 507 | #597 | — | — |
| 2015 | 583 | #536 | — | — |
| 2014 | 683 | #466 | — | — |
| 2013 | 820 | #377 | — | — |
| 2012 | 1,007 | #320 | — | — |
| 2011 | 1,245 | #257 | — | — |
| 2010 | 1,532 | #202 | — | — |
| 2009 | 1,796 | #183 | — | — |
| 2008 | 2,174 | #155 | 6 | #12,031 |
| 2007 | 2,622 | #132 | — | — |
| 2006 | 3,163 | #104 | — | — |
| 2005 | 3,592 | #91 | — | — |
| 2004 | 4,009 | #78 | 16 | #5,165 |
| 2003 | 3,517 | #95 | 7 | #9,276 |
| 2002 | 3,317 | #99 | — | — |
| 2001 | 3,853 | #79 | 6 | #10,074 |
| 2000 | 4,025 | #78 | 8 | #7,927 |
| 1999 | 4,389 | #73 | 6 | #9,466 |
| 1998 | 4,722 | #66 | 9 | #6,642 |
| 1997 | 5,298 | #60 | 8 | #7,034 |
| 1996 | 5,752 | #59 | 7 | #7,675 |
| 1995 | 6,081 | #53 | 13 | #4,700 |
| 1994 | 6,246 | #53 | 14 | #4,446 |
| 1993 | 5,626 | #59 | 6 | #8,297 |
| 1992 | 4,873 | #72 | 7 | #7,139 |
| 1991 | 4,421 | #81 | 9 | #5,780 |
| 1990 | 3,806 | #87 | 21 | #3,022 |
| 1989 | 3,794 | #81 | 21 | #2,959 |
| 1988 | 2,810 | #101 | 11 | #4,353 |
| 1987 | 2,543 | #109 | 7 | #5,863 |
| 1986 | 2,443 | #115 | 14 | #3,370 |
| 1985 | 1,890 | #152 | 19 | #2,663 |
| 1984 | 1,627 | #170 | — | — |
| 1983 | 1,620 | #170 | 11 | #3,779 |
| 1982 | 1,518 | #181 | 7 | #5,385 |
| 1981 | 1,453 | #187 | 8 | #4,795 |
| 1980 | 1,403 | #193 | — | — |
| 1979 | 1,386 | #194 | 9 | #4,273 |
| 1978 | 1,147 | #218 | 9 | #4,048 |
| 1977 | 1,069 | #233 | 5 | #6,468 |
| 1976 | 614 | #350 | — | — |
| 1975 | 381 | #484 | 6 | #5,208 |
| 1974 | 365 | #484 | — | — |
| 1973 | 350 | #498 | — | — |
| 1972 | 273 | #588 | — | — |
| 1971 | 274 | #618 | — | — |
| 1970 | 263 | #631 | — | — |
| 1969 | 256 | #622 | — | — |
| 1968 | 238 | #624 | — | — |
| 1967 | 210 | #664 | — | — |
| 1966 | 140 | #846 | — | — |
| 1965 | 114 | #964 | — | — |
| 1964 | 99 | #1,099 | — | — |
| 1963 | 117 | #988 | — | — |
| 1962 | 105 | #1,055 | — | — |
| 1961 | 104 | #1,077 | — | — |
| 1960 | 92 | #1,134 | — | — |
| 1959 | 65 | #1,332 | — | — |
| 1958 | 91 | #1,110 | — | — |
| 1957 | 76 | #1,215 | — | — |
| 1956 | 69 | #1,256 | — | — |
| 1955 | 39 | #1,657 | — | — |
| 1954 | 20 | #2,489 | — | — |
| 1953 | 19 | #2,478 | — | — |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,879 | — | — |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,666 | — | — |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,585 | — | — |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,521 | — | — |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,613 | — | — |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,269 | — | — |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,624 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).