Marissa
Marissa reached its high-water mark in 1994 at number 53, and has been recorded 121,112 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 1,673rd. About 119,000 Marissas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 29.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Marissa boys named Marissa
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 121,112
- Estimated living today
- 119,000
- Median age today
- 29
- Peak year
- 1994
- Best rank
- 53rd
- Rank in 2025
- 1,673rd
- First recorded
- 1936
- Girls / boys
- 120,842 / 270
How old the living Marissas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 121,112 babies given the name since 1936, about 119,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 12,000 of them are children and 430 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1996 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Spanish
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Marissas
- Marissa Jaret Winokur (born 1973)American actress
People named Marissa with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Marissa is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Marissa is most concentrated in New Mexico (2.3×), Arizona (2.1×), Nevada (1.9×), California (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1994
The most popular girls’ names the year Marissa peaked:
Marissa elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Marissa | 1,086 | 467th |
| France girls | Marissa | 930 | 771st |
| Italy girls | Marissa | 446 | — |
| Scotland girls | Marissa | 309 | 238th |
| Belgium girls | Marissa | 256 | 483rd |
| Ireland girls | Marissa | 130 | 353rd |
| Northern Ireland girls | Marissa | 22 | 294th |
| Poland girls | Marissa | 12 birth registrations | 483rd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Marissa: rank by region
In 2017, Marissa was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Marissa | 317 | 9 |
In 2015, Marissa was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Marissa | 10 | 1 |
In 2017, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Marissa appears in the lists for Province of Liège (197th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Marissa among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Marissa | 2,222 | 2,938 |
| Finland girls | Marissa | 216 | 502 |
| the Netherlands boys | Marissa | — | 7 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Marissa lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 183 women called Marissa were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lleida | Marissa | 5 | 0.022 | 2,103 |
| Girona | Marissa | 8 | 0.019 | 2,370 |
| Barcelona | Marissa | 51 | 0.017 | 2,523 |
| Madrid | Marissa | 64 | 0.017 | 2,448 |
| Balears, Illes | Marissa | 7 | 0.011 | 3,846 |
| Málaga | Marissa | 7 | 0.008 | 4,562 |
Listed in 6 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 46 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Marissa against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.