Maressa — girls' name
468 babies named Maressa in U.S. Social Security records since 1968, with the highest year being 1993. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
37% of everyone ever named Maressa was born in this single decade.
26 babies were named Maressa in 1993 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Maressa
The Social Security Administration has registered 468 babies named Maressa between 1968 and 2010, spanning 43 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Maressa currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2010. The name reached its historical peak in 1993, when 26 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Maressa performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 171 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Maressa shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Maressa in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Maressa 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 468 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.
Maressa at a glance
Last recorded 2010Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Maressa popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2010–1968
- Peak year (1993)
- 26
- Annual births at peak — across 43 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2010.
468 total births across 43 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1993 with 26 births in a single year.
Maressa by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 171 births that decade — 37% of Maressa's all-time total
Maressa decade highlights
- Peak decade 171 births
- Runner-up 139 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Maressa's strongest decade
171 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 37% of all-time use.
Maressa by state
Where Maressa concentrates geographically — total births since 1968
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 10 | 2.1% |
10 of 468 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 2.1% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 2.1% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1968–2010 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.