Marrisa — girls' name

What the Data Says About Marrisa

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,060 babies named Marrisa between 1963 and 2016, spanning 54 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Marrisa currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2016. The name reached its historical peak in 1994, when 76 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Marrisa performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 481 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Marrisa shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 110 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Marrisa in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Marrisa 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 1,060 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.