Marisa
Marisa was given to 25 girls in 2025, #5,177 among girls’ names; 48,773 Americans have been recorded with it since 1934 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 46,900 Americans named Marisa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 28 and 47.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marisa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Marisa mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Marisa is “a female given name from Spanish, variant of Marissa.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Marisa?
#5,177 among girls’ names, 2025
Marisa fell from #1,891 in 2015 to #5,177 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 60.5 to 15.6 per million.
2,198 babies in 1995, the peak
Marisa peaked in 1995, when 2,198 girls were given it, #147 among girls’ names. The 25 births of 2025 are 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25 | #5,177 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 38 | #3,939 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 45 | #3,509 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 37 | #4,014 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 40 | #3,779 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 68 | #2,539 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 62 | #2,742 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 54 | #3,033 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 88 | #2,176 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 98 | #2,028 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (85)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 108 | #1,891 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 175 | #1,342 | 0.10 |
| 2013 | 172 | #1,358 | 0.10 |
| 2012 | 258 | #977 | 0.15 |
| 2011 | 308 | #859 | 0.18 |
| 2010 | 330 | #817 | 0.19 |
| 2009 | 411 | #705 | 0.22 |
| 2008 | 479 | #644 | 0.25 |
| 2007 | 612 | #516 | 0.32 |
| 2006 | 611 | #498 | 0.32 |
| 2005 | 800 | #391 | 0.43 |
| 2004 | 953 | #335 | 0.52 |
| 2003 | 945 | #333 | 0.52 |
| 2002 | 933 | #327 | 0.52 |
| 2001 | 982 | #319 | 0.55 |
| 2000 | 1,052 | #302 | 0.58 |
| 1999 | 1,110 | #283 | 0.63 |
| 1998 | 1,433 | #213 | 0.81 |
| 1997 | 1,478 | #200 | 0.85 |
| 1996 | 1,858 | #169 | 1.1 |
| 1995 | 2,198 | #147 | 1.2 |
| 1994 | 2,186 | #147 | 1.2 |
| 1993 | 1,724 | #172 | 1.0 |
| 1992 | 1,286 | #220 | 0.70 |
| 1991 | 1,153 | #239 | 0.61 |
| 1990 | 1,111 | #255 | 0.59 |
| 1989 | 1,036 | #259 | 0.56 |
| 1988 | 1,061 | #249 | 0.60 |
| 1987 | 989 | #257 | 0.57 |
| 1986 | 1,054 | #247 | 0.61 |
| 1985 | 972 | #258 | 0.56 |
| 1984 | 901 | #269 | 0.54 |
| 1983 | 995 | #241 | 0.60 |
| 1982 | 1,096 | #232 | 0.65 |
| 1981 | 1,168 | #224 | 0.70 |
| 1980 | 1,086 | #235 | 0.65 |
| 1979 | 1,293 | #205 | 0.81 |
| 1978 | 1,257 | #206 | 0.82 |
| 1977 | 1,608 | #167 | 1.0 |
| 1976 | 1,092 | #222 | 0.75 |
| 1975 | 560 | #371 | 0.38 |
| 1974 | 589 | #365 | 0.40 |
| 1973 | 578 | #368 | 0.40 |
| 1972 | 485 | #407 | 0.32 |
| 1971 | 458 | #450 | 0.28 |
| 1970 | 401 | #497 | 0.23 |
| 1969 | 350 | #523 | 0.21 |
| 1968 | 409 | #474 | 0.25 |
| 1967 | 404 | #472 | 0.24 |
| 1966 | 412 | #466 | 0.24 |
| 1965 | 303 | #547 | 0.17 |
| 1964 | 329 | #546 | 0.17 |
| 1963 | 309 | #553 | 0.16 |
| 1962 | 279 | #598 | 0.14 |
| 1961 | 299 | #583 | 0.15 |
| 1960 | 338 | #528 | 0.17 |
| 1959 | 241 | #643 | 0.12 |
| 1958 | 278 | #596 | 0.14 |
| 1957 | 254 | #617 | 0.12 |
| 1956 | 307 | #530 | 0.15 |
| 1955 | 88 | #1,079 | 0.05 |
| 1954 | 59 | #1,296 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 31 | #1,812 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 27 | #1,964 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 23 | #2,093 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,582 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 11 | #3,318 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,777 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 6 | #5,085 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,788 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 5 | #5,013 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,445 | under 0.01 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,159 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,989 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,727 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Marisa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marisa has been given almost only to girls: 66 boys in 85 years of records.
Girls and boys named Marisa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marisa, and how old are they?
46,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 48,773 Americans ever recorded as Marisa. The median Marisa alive today is 35 years old; half are between 28 and 47.
The 2020 Census counted 48,703 people named Marisa (48,646 women and girls, 57 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 47,152 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 10 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,420 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 10,600 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 20,300 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 12,500 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,000 |
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 Marisa born?
The states with the most babies named Marisa are California, New York and Texas, with 40% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 8,342 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| New York | 5,192 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Texas | 4,759 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 2,282 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| New Jersey | 2,222 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Illinois | 2,101 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 1,823 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 1,773 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Florida | 1,706 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Massachusetts | 1,392 | not ranked | 1.2× |
Where Marisa is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Marisa is most over-represented in New Mexico: since 1934 it was given 1.8 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 Marisa 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 175,822 babies since 1880, Marisa is the second most given (28% of them). In 2025 it was given to 25 of their 148 babies (17%), 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 Marisa
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 Marisa and names like it
- Compare Marisa and MarissaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMarisa peaked in 1995.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marisa since 1910.
- The top names of 1995The year the most babies were named Marisa.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Marisa alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.