Meaning not yet researched.
Risa: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 22 in 2025. Its best rank was #909 in 1966.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #909 in 1966; #5,675 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Risa in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,675 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1966, at #909.
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Risa: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 22 girls in 2025. Peak: #909 in 1966 · most girls in one year: 131 (1962).
In 2025, 22 US girls were named Risa, making it the 5,675th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,850 places from #7,525 in 2024. That is 7 more than the 15 girls named Risa in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #909, reached in 1966. The most girls given the name in a single year was 131, in 1962. For comparison, it was #7,541 in 2015 and #1,359 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Risa in 84 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1942 with 12 babies. In all, 4,177 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 1,073 babies named Risa.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 184 US girls were named Risa; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 25. In 2025 that was about 1 in 73,058 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Reza, Resa and Reesa 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: Reza (1,215), Resa (1,046), Reesa (748), Rissa (313), Riza (96), Reisa (60), Rysa (57), Ressa (41), Ryssa (11), Ryza (11), Riesa (10), Rizza (6).
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 Risa 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 | 22 | #5,675 | — | — |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,525 | — | — |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,482 | — | — |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,227 | — | — |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,953 | — | — |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,883 | — | — |
| 2019 | 20 | #6,141 | — | — |
| 2018 | 24 | #5,428 | — | — |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,635 | — | — |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,422 | — | — |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,541 | — | — |
| 2014 | 27 | #5,142 | — | — |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,314 | — | — |
| 2012 | 33 | #4,469 | — | — |
| 2011 | 30 | #4,787 | — | — |
| 2010 | 22 | #6,144 | — | — |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,267 | — | — |
| 2008 | 31 | #4,854 | — | — |
| 2007 | 30 | #4,917 | — | — |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,552 | — | — |
| 2005 | 25 | #5,225 | — | — |
| 2004 | 33 | #4,260 | — | — |
| 2003 | 46 | #3,222 | — | — |
| 2002 | 49 | #3,004 | — | — |
| 2001 | 32 | #4,009 | — | — |
| 2000 | 43 | #3,206 | — | — |
| 1999 | 36 | #3,490 | — | — |
| 1998 | 54 | #2,561 | — | — |
| 1997 | 39 | #3,089 | — | — |
| 1996 | 31 | #3,611 | — | — |
| 1995 | 54 | #2,414 | — | — |
| 1994 | 48 | #2,615 | — | — |
| 1993 | 37 | #3,148 | — | — |
| 1992 | 55 | #2,373 | — | — |
| 1991 | 49 | #2,540 | — | — |
| 1990 | 71 | #1,948 | — | — |
| 1989 | 45 | #2,559 | — | — |
| 1988 | 65 | #1,905 | — | — |
| 1987 | 44 | #2,387 | — | — |
| 1986 | 42 | #2,409 | — | — |
| 1985 | 50 | #2,127 | — | — |
| 1984 | 62 | #1,764 | — | — |
| 1983 | 62 | #1,746 | — | — |
| 1982 | 52 | #2,014 | — | — |
| 1981 | 65 | #1,751 | — | — |
| 1980 | 49 | #2,117 | — | — |
| 1979 | 62 | #1,761 | — | — |
| 1978 | 46 | #2,081 | — | — |
| 1977 | 48 | #2,020 | — | — |
| 1976 | 49 | #1,880 | — | — |
| 1975 | 59 | #1,650 | — | — |
| 1974 | 59 | #1,612 | — | — |
| 1973 | 51 | #1,748 | — | — |
| 1972 | 56 | #1,621 | — | — |
| 1971 | 76 | #1,402 | — | — |
| 1970 | 55 | #1,694 | — | — |
| 1969 | 75 | #1,313 | — | — |
| 1968 | 83 | #1,194 | — | — |
| 1967 | 76 | #1,225 | — | — |
| 1966 | 124 | #909 | — | — |
| 1965 | 119 | #936 | — | — |
| 1964 | 108 | #1,046 | — | — |
| 1963 | 119 | #979 | — | — |
| 1962 | 131 | #929 | — | — |
| 1961 | 113 | #1,029 | — | — |
| 1960 | 125 | #959 | — | — |
| 1959 | 105 | #1,045 | — | — |
| 1958 | 90 | #1,116 | — | — |
| 1957 | 74 | #1,227 | — | — |
| 1956 | 94 | #1,056 | — | — |
| 1955 | 93 | #1,049 | — | — |
| 1954 | 64 | #1,247 | — | — |
| 1953 | 46 | #1,454 | — | — |
| 1952 | 41 | #1,519 | — | — |
| 1951 | 39 | #1,517 | — | — |
| 1950 | 46 | #1,359 | — | — |
| 1949 | 48 | #1,333 | — | — |
| 1948 | 28 | #1,812 | — | — |
| 1947 | 33 | #1,690 | — | — |
| 1946 | 14 | #2,714 | — | — |
| 1945 | 29 | #1,538 | — | — |
| 1944 | 12 | #2,743 | — | — |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,235 | — | — |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,778 | — | — |
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).