Larissa
Larissa was given to 126 girls in 2025, #1,646 among girls’ names; 23,498 Americans have been recorded with it since 1946 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 22,900 Americans named Larissa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 22 and 41.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Larissa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Larissa mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Larissa is “a female given name from Ancient Greek (after the mythological character and a 4th century Greek Orthodox martyr).”
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Λάρισσα (Lárissa).
/ləˈɹɪsə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Larissa?
#1,646 among girls’ names, 2025
Larissa fell from #1,166 in 2015 to #1,646 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.12 to 0.08 per 1,000.
715 babies in 1994, the peak
Larissa peaked in 1994, when 715 girls were given it, #363 among girls’ names. The 126 births of 2025 are 18% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 126 | #1,646 | 0.08 |
| 2024 | 130 | #1,611 | 0.08 |
| 2023 | 148 | #1,479 | 0.09 |
| 2022 | 136 | #1,565 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 140 | #1,512 | 0.09 |
| 2020 | 116 | #1,736 | 0.07 |
| 2019 | 143 | #1,521 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 146 | #1,501 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 206 | #1,188 | 0.12 |
| 2016 | 181 | #1,323 | 0.10 |
Every recorded year (77)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 217 | #1,166 | 0.12 |
| 2014 | 233 | #1,098 | 0.13 |
| 2013 | 231 | #1,071 | 0.13 |
| 2012 | 315 | #848 | 0.18 |
| 2011 | 308 | #858 | 0.18 |
| 2010 | 368 | #755 | 0.21 |
| 2009 | 376 | #757 | 0.20 |
| 2008 | 424 | #708 | 0.22 |
| 2007 | 506 | #590 | 0.26 |
| 2006 | 454 | #634 | 0.24 |
| 2005 | 545 | #530 | 0.29 |
| 2004 | 682 | #448 | 0.37 |
| 2003 | 550 | #518 | 0.30 |
| 2002 | 536 | #512 | 0.30 |
| 2001 | 533 | #509 | 0.30 |
| 2000 | 561 | #486 | 0.31 |
| 1999 | 596 | #449 | 0.34 |
| 1998 | 692 | #396 | 0.39 |
| 1997 | 654 | #401 | 0.38 |
| 1996 | 639 | #408 | 0.36 |
| 1995 | 646 | #406 | 0.37 |
| 1994 | 715 | #363 | 0.40 |
| 1993 | 617 | #404 | 0.34 |
| 1992 | 684 | #376 | 0.37 |
| 1991 | 654 | #391 | 0.35 |
| 1990 | 647 | #402 | 0.34 |
| 1989 | 652 | #387 | 0.35 |
| 1988 | 550 | #422 | 0.31 |
| 1987 | 504 | #441 | 0.29 |
| 1986 | 445 | #483 | 0.26 |
| 1985 | 453 | #468 | 0.26 |
| 1984 | 456 | #456 | 0.27 |
| 1983 | 459 | #448 | 0.27 |
| 1982 | 432 | #482 | 0.26 |
| 1981 | 443 | #479 | 0.27 |
| 1980 | 425 | #488 | 0.26 |
| 1979 | 392 | #507 | 0.24 |
| 1978 | 354 | #524 | 0.23 |
| 1977 | 362 | #515 | 0.24 |
| 1976 | 353 | #505 | 0.24 |
| 1975 | 232 | #656 | 0.16 |
| 1974 | 245 | #631 | 0.17 |
| 1973 | 217 | #689 | 0.15 |
| 1972 | 214 | #687 | 0.14 |
| 1971 | 256 | #642 | 0.15 |
| 1970 | 295 | #595 | 0.17 |
| 1969 | 199 | #715 | 0.12 |
| 1968 | 168 | #774 | 0.10 |
| 1967 | 127 | #909 | 0.08 |
| 1966 | 75 | #1,247 | 0.04 |
| 1965 | 35 | #1,969 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 41 | #1,849 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 35 | #1,997 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 39 | #1,843 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 28 | #2,273 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 39 | #1,824 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 27 | #2,216 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 13 | #3,462 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 13 | #3,401 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 13 | #3,425 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 11 | #3,677 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,464 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 9 | #4,095 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,220 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,861 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,708 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,721 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Larissa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Larissa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 77 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Larissa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Larissa, and how old are they?
22,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 23,498 Americans ever recorded as Larissa. The median Larissa alive today is 32 years old; half are between 22 and 41.
The 2020 Census counted 23,539 people named Larissa (23,508 women and girls, 31 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 22,258 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 249 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 3,700 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 8,760 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 8,010 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,140 |
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 Larissa born?
The states with the most babies named Larissa are Texas, California and Florida, with 69% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 27 | #1,048 | 1.3× |
| California | 13 | #1,705 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 9 | #1,500 | 0.8× |
| New York | 7 | #1,752 | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,517 | 1.0× |
| Washington | 5 | #1,158 | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,586 | 0.5× |
Where Larissa is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Larissa is most over-represented in New Mexico: since 1946 it was given 1.7 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 Larissa 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 30,335 babies since 1880, Larissa is the most given (77% of them). In 2025 it was given to 126 of their 140 babies (90%), 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 Larissa
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 Larissa and names like it
- Compare Larissa and LarisaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sLarissa peaked in 1994.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Larissa since 1910.
- Ancient Greek namesWiktionary’s origin for Larissa: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Larissa.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Larissa alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with LMost given first.