Marissa — #1494 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Marissa

The Social Security Administration has registered 120,711 babies named Marissa between 1936 and 2024, spanning 89 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Marissa currently holds the #1494 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1994, when 6,245 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Marissa performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 51,215 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Marissa shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 19,864 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Marissa in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Marissa 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 120,711 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.