Marisha
Marisha was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 1,547 Americans have been recorded with it between 1955 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,490 Americans named Marisha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 32 and 46.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marisha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Marisha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,817, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
72 babies in 1992, the peak
Marisha peaked in 1992, when 72 girls were given it, #1,935 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #16,817 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 5 | #16,734 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 5 | #16,849 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,658 | 3.1 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,253 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 5 | #18,589 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,235 | 4.4 |
| 2008 | 9 | #12,241 | 4.8 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,825 | 3.1 |
| 2006 | 8 | #13,156 | 4.2 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 14 | #8,182 | 7.6 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,657 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,853 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,575 | 9.5 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,513 | 9.4 |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,252 | 12.1 |
| 1999 | 26 | #4,399 | 14.7 |
| 1998 | 32 | #3,698 | 18.1 |
| 1997 | 36 | #3,275 | 20.7 |
| 1996 | 38 | #3,117 | 21.7 |
| 1995 | 44 | #2,761 | 25.0 |
| 1994 | 59 | #2,238 | 33.0 |
| 1993 | 54 | #2,363 | 29.8 |
| 1992 | 72 | #1,935 | 39.0 |
| 1991 | 50 | #2,495 | 26.7 |
| 1990 | 62 | #2,112 | 32.7 |
| 1989 | 66 | #1,949 | 35.8 |
| 1988 | 54 | #2,139 | 30.3 |
| 1987 | 58 | #1,957 | 33.4 |
| 1986 | 70 | #1,682 | 40.8 |
| 1985 | 55 | #1,988 | 32.0 |
| 1984 | 44 | #2,250 | 26.1 |
| 1983 | 39 | #2,411 | 23.3 |
| 1982 | 47 | #2,172 | 27.8 |
| 1981 | 55 | #1,951 | 33.0 |
| 1980 | 54 | #1,971 | 32.5 |
| 1979 | 51 | #2,008 | 31.8 |
| 1978 | 39 | #2,335 | 25.5 |
| 1977 | 41 | #2,239 | 26.7 |
| 1976 | 32 | #2,522 | 21.8 |
| 1975 | 29 | #2,650 | 19.9 |
| 1974 | 18 | #3,645 | 12.3 |
| 1973 | 40 | #2,048 | 27.4 |
| 1972 | 34 | #2,257 | 22.4 |
| 1971 | 28 | #2,642 | 16.8 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,655 | 5.1 |
| 1969 | 13 | #4,091 | 7.7 |
| 1968 | 7 | #6,007 | 4.3 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,819 | 4.2 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,248 | 3.4 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,491 | 3.2 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,322 | 3.1 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,861 | 2.5 |
| 1955 | 7 | #5,024 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Marisha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marisha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 54 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Marisha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marisha, and how old are they?
1,490 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,547 Americans ever recorded as Marisha. The median Marisha alive today is 39 years old; half are between 32 and 46.
The 2020 Census counted 1,484 people named Marisha (1,478 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,488 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 20 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 384 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 843 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 220 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 25 |
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 Marisha born?
The states with the most babies named Marisha are California, Texas and Ohio, with 86% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
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 Marisha 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 108,257 babies since 1880, Marisha is the second most given (1.4% of them).
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 Marisha
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 Marisha and names like it
- Compare Marisha and MarshaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMarisha peaked in 1992.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marisha since 1910.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Marisha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Marisha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.