Jarissa — girls' name

What the Data Says About Jarissa

The Social Security Administration has registered 190 babies named Jarissa between 1989 and 2016, spanning 28 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jarissa currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2016. The name reached its historical peak in 2005, when 13 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jarissa performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 79 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Jarissa shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jarissa in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 190 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.