Girls' name · since 1960
Marylisa
Marylisa has 28 recorded births since 1960 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1960 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- 28
- total births
- 1960–1978
- years on record
- 1960s
- peak decade
- 82%
- born in that decade
Marylisa sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 28 recorded since 1960.
Marylisa has 28 recorded births among girls since 1960, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1960s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1960 to 1978.
- 28 total births
- 1960–1978 years on record
- 1960s peak decade
- 82% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Marylisa's 28 recorded births place it above 42% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Marylisa's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Marylisa's SSA record in two at 1962 and the more recent half accounts for 57% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 43%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1961, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 1960 peak of 7, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Marylisa popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1960–1978
- Peak year (1960)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 19 years of records
Marylisa by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1960s was Marylisa's strongest decade.
23 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 82% of all-time use.
Marylisa births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1960s
1960s
23 births
- 1970s 5
1970s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 1960s at 23 births (82% of all-time use).
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- Marylisa's decade-level peak was the 1960s (23 total births); usage has since declined to 5 in the 1970s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1960–1978 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Marylisa: Baby Name Since 1960 - 28 Births, Peak 1960." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/marylisa. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Marylisa draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.