Marrissa — girls' name

What the Data Says About Marrissa

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,438 babies named Marrissa between 1965 and 2016, spanning 52 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Marrissa currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2016. The name reached its historical peak in 1993, when 87 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Marrissa performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 671 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Marrissa shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 175 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Marrissa in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Marrissa 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 1,438 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.