Meaning not yet researched.
Nerissa: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 9 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,585 in 1979.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,585 in 1979; #10,681 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Nerissa in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#10,681 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1979, at #1,585.
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Nerissa: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 9 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,585 in 1979 · most girls in one year: 73 (1979).
In 2025, 9 US girls were named Nerissa, making it the 10,681st most common girls’ name of the year, up 4,111 places from #14,792 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 6 girls named Nerissa in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,585, reached in 1979. That year also had the most girls given the name: 73. For comparison, it was #18,378 in 2015 and #4,615 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nerissa in 77 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1915 with 6 babies. In all, 1,977 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 488 babies named Nerissa.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 83 US girls were named Nerissa; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 15. In 2025 that was about 1 in 178,585 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Nerrissa, Nerisa and Nyrissa are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Nerrissa (10), Nerisa (10), Nyrissa (5).
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.
No nicknames listed for Nerissa in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,681 | — | — |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,792 | — | — |
| 2023 | 5 | #16,923 | — | — |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,891 | — | — |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,831 | — | — |
| 2019 | 9 | #11,128 | — | — |
| 2018 | 8 | #12,184 | — | — |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,740 | — | — |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,884 | — | — |
| 2015 | 5 | #18,378 | — | — |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,376 | — | — |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,830 | — | — |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,229 | — | — |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,901 | — | — |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,427 | — | — |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,489 | — | — |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,320 | — | — |
| 2007 | 29 | #5,058 | — | — |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,537 | — | — |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,740 | — | — |
| 2004 | 33 | #4,250 | — | — |
| 2003 | 22 | #5,552 | — | — |
| 2002 | 26 | #4,723 | — | — |
| 2001 | 31 | #4,084 | — | — |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,104 | — | — |
| 1999 | 29 | #4,051 | — | — |
| 1998 | 27 | #4,208 | — | — |
| 1997 | 31 | #3,684 | — | — |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,907 | — | — |
| 1995 | 35 | #3,269 | — | — |
| 1994 | 35 | #3,286 | — | — |
| 1993 | 30 | #3,652 | — | — |
| 1992 | 26 | #4,053 | — | — |
| 1991 | 33 | #3,347 | — | — |
| 1990 | 41 | #2,836 | — | — |
| 1989 | 48 | #2,437 | — | — |
| 1988 | 34 | #3,017 | — | — |
| 1987 | 43 | #2,425 | — | — |
| 1986 | 28 | #3,248 | — | — |
| 1985 | 39 | #2,527 | — | — |
| 1984 | 55 | #1,916 | — | — |
| 1983 | 51 | #2,012 | — | — |
| 1982 | 64 | #1,750 | — | — |
| 1981 | 72 | #1,625 | — | — |
| 1980 | 54 | #1,972 | — | — |
| 1979 | 73 | #1,585 | — | — |
| 1978 | 63 | #1,681 | — | — |
| 1977 | 38 | #2,365 | — | — |
| 1976 | 38 | #2,243 | — | — |
| 1975 | 51 | #1,828 | — | — |
| 1974 | 42 | #2,020 | — | — |
| 1973 | 33 | #2,336 | — | — |
| 1972 | 45 | #1,875 | — | — |
| 1971 | 44 | #1,956 | — | — |
| 1970 | 27 | #2,682 | — | — |
| 1969 | 38 | #2,046 | — | — |
| 1968 | 31 | #2,194 | — | — |
| 1967 | 26 | #2,415 | — | — |
| 1966 | 19 | #2,913 | — | — |
| 1965 | 26 | #2,389 | — | — |
| 1964 | 25 | #2,515 | — | — |
| 1963 | 18 | #3,038 | — | — |
| 1962 | 21 | #2,717 | — | — |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,169 | — | — |
| 1960 | 11 | #4,099 | — | — |
| 1959 | 12 | #3,761 | — | — |
| 1958 | 14 | #3,341 | — | — |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,623 | — | — |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,379 | — | — |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,661 | — | — |
| 1954 | 14 | #3,117 | — | — |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,477 | — | — |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,802 | — | — |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,615 | — | — |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,796 | — | — |
| 1918 | 7 | #4,167 | — | — |
| 1915 | 6 | #4,115 | — | — |
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).