Marrissa
Marrissa was last recorded in 2016, when 5 babies were given it; 1,438 Americans have been recorded with it between 1965 and 2016 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,410 Americans named Marrissa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 25 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marrissa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Marrissa?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,913, in 2016; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
87 babies in 1993, the peak
Marrissa peaked in 1993, when 87 girls were given it, #1,712 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 5 | #17,913 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,265 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,742 | 4.6 |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,173 | 6.2 |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,662 | 13.6 |
| 2010 | 22 | #6,103 | 12.4 |
| 2009 | 36 | #4,245 | 19.6 |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,978 | 10.0 |
| 2007 | 24 | #5,832 | 12.5 |
| 2006 | 41 | #3,768 | 21.6 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 21 | #5,937 | 11.4 |
| 2004 | 38 | #3,789 | 20.7 |
| 2003 | 38 | #3,700 | 20.8 |
| 2002 | 44 | #3,222 | 24.5 |
| 2001 | 28 | #4,394 | 15.6 |
| 2000 | 39 | #3,433 | 21.5 |
| 1999 | 48 | #2,836 | 27.1 |
| 1998 | 56 | #2,481 | 31.7 |
| 1997 | 65 | #2,145 | 37.3 |
| 1996 | 67 | #2,075 | 38.2 |
| 1995 | 85 | #1,719 | 48.3 |
| 1994 | 77 | #1,847 | 43.1 |
| 1993 | 87 | #1,712 | 48.1 |
| 1992 | 75 | #1,881 | 40.7 |
| 1991 | 57 | #2,277 | 30.4 |
| 1990 | 54 | #2,328 | 28.4 |
| 1989 | 49 | #2,389 | 26.6 |
| 1988 | 46 | #2,389 | 25.8 |
| 1987 | 40 | #2,551 | 23.0 |
| 1986 | 36 | #2,705 | 21.0 |
| 1985 | 25 | #3,475 | 14.5 |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,117 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,807 | 9.0 |
| 1982 | 21 | #3,859 | 12.4 |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,102 | 11.4 |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,441 | 10.2 |
| 1979 | 16 | #4,530 | 10.0 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,415 | 7.8 |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,558 | 9.8 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,656 | 4.8 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,241 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,085 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,065 | 4.2 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,203 | 3.0 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,740 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,161 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Marrissa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marrissa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 46 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Marrissa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marrissa, and how old are they?
1,410 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,438 Americans ever recorded as Marrissa. The median Marrissa alive today is 31 years old; half are between 25 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 1,437 people named Marrissa (1,437 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,415 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 93 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 748 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 547 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 18 |
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 Marrissa born?
The states with the most babies named Marrissa are California, Texas and Ohio, with 90% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 175 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 73 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 17 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 12 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| New York | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Arizona | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
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 Marrissa with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Marrissa?
Marrissa is a less common spelling of Marissa: SSA has recorded 1,438 Marrissa and 121,112 Marissa since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 175,507 babies since 1880, Marrissa is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 148 babies recorded by SSA was a Marrissa (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Marrissa
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 Marrissa and names like it
- Compare Marrissa and MarissaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMarrissa peaked in 1993.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marrissa since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Marrissa.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Marrissa alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.