Marissa
Marissa is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 145 births. Its best rank was 53rd, in 1994–1995.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1450.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 19946,245 births
- Best rank
- #53first in 1994
- Since 1936
- 120,711people given the name
The story in the numbers
120,711 girls have been named Marissa in the United States since 1936, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1994, with 6,245 births — 0.35% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 145 births in 2024, against 6,245 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1996, and the 1990s alone account for 42%. It has spent 56 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 17 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Marissa | |
|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 5 | |
| 1940s | 21 | |
| 1950s | 408 | |
| 1960s | 1,475 | |
| 1970s | 6,122 | |
| 1980s | 21,102 | |
| 1990s | 51,215 | |
| 2000s | 32,068 | |
| 2010s | 7,416 | |
| 2020s | 879 |
In 1994, its biggest year
Marissa was the 53rd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1994 were Jessica, Ashley, Emily, Samantha and Sarah. See all of 1994.
Names that rose and fell with Marissa
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Markiapeak 1996
- Briannpeak 1996
- Brieannapeak 1994
- Marrissapeak 1993
- Yesseniapeak 1990
- Poojapeak 1997
- Kaleepeak 1999
- Keyanapeak 1994
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.