Arissa
Arissa was given to 32 girls in 2025, #4,366 among girls’ names; 2,491 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,460 Americans named Arissa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 14 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Arissa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Arissa?
#4,366 among girls’ names, 2025
Arissa fell from #2,621 in 2015 to #4,366 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 38.1 to 19.9 per million.
221 babies in 2003, the peak
Arissa peaked in 2003, when 221 girls were given it, #1,034 among girls’ names. The 32 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32 | #4,366 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 29 | #4,678 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 29 | #4,665 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 24 | #5,326 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 27 | #4,849 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 33 | #4,184 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,932 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 44 | #3,505 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 40 | #3,778 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 58 | #2,907 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 68 | #2,621 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 68 | #2,585 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 73 | #2,463 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 81 | #2,316 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 81 | #2,303 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 76 | #2,453 | 0.04 |
| 2009 | 100 | #2,042 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 95 | #2,124 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 105 | #1,958 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 88 | #2,187 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 163 | #1,340 | 0.09 |
| 2004 | 144 | #1,430 | 0.08 |
| 2003 | 221 | #1,034 | 0.12 |
| 2002 | 75 | #2,199 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 51 | #2,844 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 41 | #3,270 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 49 | #2,785 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 54 | #2,528 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 68 | #2,068 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 43 | #2,798 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 60 | #2,213 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 74 | #1,901 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 38 | #3,051 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 31 | #3,502 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 33 | #3,299 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,306 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,173 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,619 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 12 | #5,936 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,201 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,396 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,333 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,480 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 9 | #6,927 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,184 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,567 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,114 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,507 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,411 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,407 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Arissa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Arissa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Arissa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Arissa, and how old are they?
2,460 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,491 Americans ever recorded as Arissa. The median Arissa alive today is 21 years old; half are between 14 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 1,984 people named Arissa (1,978 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,302 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 41 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 385 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,480 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 558 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Arissa born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 5 | #3,162 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 5 | #3,339 | 1.3× |
Where Arissa is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Arissa is most over-represented in Texas: since 1970 it was given 1.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Arissa with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 4,035 babies since 1880, Arissa is the most given (62% of them). In 2025 it was given to 32 of their 69 babies (46%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Arissa
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Arissa and names like it
- Compare Arissa and ArisaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sArissa peaked in 2003.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Arissa since 1910.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Arissa.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Arissa alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.