Larisa
Larisa was given to 14 girls in 2025, #7,703 among girls’ names; 3,458 Americans have been recorded with it since 1951 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,320 Americans named Larisa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 26 and 49.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Larisa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Larisa mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Larisa is “a transliteration of the Russian female given name Лари́са (Larísa)”
Also “a female given name from Ancient Greek, a less common spelling of Larissa.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Larisa?
#7,703 among girls’ names, 2025
Larisa rose from #8,247 in 2015 to #7,703 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 7.8 to 8.7 per million.
108 babies in 1993, the peak
Larisa peaked in 1993, when 108 girls were given it, #1,478 among girls’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 13% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,703 | 8.7 |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,292 | 11.7 |
| 2023 | 16 | #7,107 | 10.0 |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,592 | 11.0 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,485 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,213 | 8.0 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,579 | 10.7 |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,150 | 11.8 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,422 | 11.0 |
| 2016 | 21 | #6,090 | 11.9 |
Every recorded year (71)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14 | #8,247 | 7.8 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,753 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,080 | 15.4 |
| 2012 | 22 | #6,019 | 12.5 |
| 2011 | 34 | #4,311 | 19.3 |
| 2010 | 38 | #3,999 | 21.4 |
| 2009 | 35 | #4,327 | 19.1 |
| 2008 | 34 | #4,507 | 18.0 |
| 2007 | 59 | #3,017 | 30.7 |
| 2006 | 58 | #2,957 | 30.5 |
| 2005 | 54 | #2,984 | 29.2 |
| 2004 | 75 | #2,317 | 40.8 |
| 2003 | 51 | #2,976 | 27.9 |
| 2002 | 70 | #2,319 | 39.0 |
| 2001 | 47 | #3,025 | 26.1 |
| 2000 | 67 | #2,317 | 36.9 |
| 1999 | 67 | #2,238 | 37.8 |
| 1998 | 71 | #2,071 | 40.2 |
| 1997 | 73 | #1,970 | 41.9 |
| 1996 | 64 | #2,137 | 36.5 |
| 1995 | 88 | #1,674 | 50.0 |
| 1994 | 104 | #1,504 | 58.2 |
| 1993 | 108 | #1,478 | 59.7 |
| 1992 | 80 | #1,806 | 43.4 |
| 1991 | 79 | #1,803 | 42.1 |
| 1990 | 80 | #1,802 | 42.1 |
| 1989 | 80 | #1,705 | 43.4 |
| 1988 | 87 | #1,534 | 48.9 |
| 1987 | 71 | #1,711 | 40.8 |
| 1986 | 72 | #1,646 | 42.0 |
| 1985 | 63 | #1,793 | 36.6 |
| 1984 | 75 | #1,521 | 44.5 |
| 1983 | 69 | #1,618 | 41.3 |
| 1982 | 53 | #1,978 | 31.3 |
| 1981 | 77 | #1,555 | 46.2 |
| 1980 | 58 | #1,876 | 34.9 |
| 1979 | 63 | #1,745 | 39.2 |
| 1978 | 56 | #1,810 | 36.6 |
| 1977 | 70 | #1,547 | 45.7 |
| 1976 | 60 | #1,649 | 41.0 |
| 1975 | 38 | #2,217 | 26.1 |
| 1974 | 46 | #1,893 | 31.3 |
| 1973 | 65 | #1,469 | 44.6 |
| 1972 | 58 | #1,581 | 38.1 |
| 1971 | 64 | #1,538 | 38.5 |
| 1970 | 85 | #1,279 | 48.6 |
| 1969 | 89 | #1,186 | 52.8 |
| 1968 | 100 | #1,046 | 61.0 |
| 1967 | 84 | #1,161 | 50.9 |
| 1966 | 28 | #2,281 | 16.5 |
| 1965 | 17 | #3,105 | 9.6 |
| 1964 | 16 | #3,309 | 8.4 |
| 1963 | 18 | #3,022 | 9.3 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,140 | 5.6 |
| 1961 | 27 | #2,330 | 13.4 |
| 1960 | 20 | #2,776 | 9.9 |
| 1959 | 17 | #2,923 | 8.4 |
| 1958 | 13 | #3,461 | 6.5 |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,584 | 5.9 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,530 | 3.1 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,826 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Larisa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Larisa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 71 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Larisa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Larisa, and how old are they?
3,320 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 3,458 Americans ever recorded as Larisa. The median Larisa alive today is 36 years old; half are between 26 and 49.
The 2020 Census counted 9,748 people named Larisa (9,733 women and girls, 15 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,266 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 122 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 911 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,220 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 845 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 226 |
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 Larisa born?
The states with the most babies named Larisa are California, Texas and New York, with 75% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 454 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Texas | 251 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 135 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 52 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 50 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 34 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Washington | 24 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Arizona | 23 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 21 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Colorado | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Larisa is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Larisa is most over-represented in California: since 1951 it was given 1.1 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 Larisa 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 30,336 babies since 1880, Larisa is the second most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 146 babies (9.6%), again the second 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 Larisa
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 Larisa and names like it
- Compare Larisa and LarissaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sLarisa peaked in 1993.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Larisa since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Larisa.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Larisa alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with LMost given first.