Marysa
Marysa was last recorded in 2012, when 7 babies were given it; 544 Americans have been recorded with it between 1973 and 2012 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marysa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Marysa?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,473, in 2012; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
37 babies in 1993, the peak
Marysa peaked in 1993, when 37 girls were given it, #3,137 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 7 | #14,473 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,827 | 5.1 |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,852 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,787 | 6.5 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,311 | 5.3 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,690 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,233 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 26 | #5,019 | 14.2 |
| 2003 | 28 | #4,623 | 15.3 |
| 2002 | 24 | #5,019 | 13.4 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 24 | #4,944 | 13.3 |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,851 | 10.5 |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,569 | 10.7 |
| 1998 | 32 | #3,703 | 18.1 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,147 | 11.5 |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,896 | 16.0 |
| 1995 | 26 | #4,053 | 14.8 |
| 1994 | 33 | #3,411 | 18.5 |
| 1993 | 37 | #3,137 | 20.5 |
| 1992 | 20 | #4,969 | 10.8 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,366 | 5.3 |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,617 | 11.1 |
| 1989 | 28 | #3,628 | 15.2 |
| 1988 | 17 | #4,981 | 9.5 |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,187 | 6.9 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,923 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 8 | #8,021 | 4.6 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,464 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,461 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,259 | 3.1 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,725 | 5.9 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,621 | 3.3 |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,036 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Marysa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marysa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 33 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Marysa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marysa, and how old are they?
An estimated 533 Americans named Marysa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 24 and 35. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 560 people named Marysa (557 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 536 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Marysa?
Marysa is a less common spelling of Marissa: SSA has recorded 544 Marysa and 121,112 Marissa since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 174,653 babies since 1880, Marysa is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 148 babies recorded by SSA was a Marysa (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 Marysa
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 Marysa and names like it
- Compare Marysa and MarissaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMarysa peaked in 1993.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marysa since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Marysa.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Marysa alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.