Maryssa — girls' name

What the Data Says About Maryssa

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,670 babies named Maryssa between 1977 and 2022, spanning 46 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Maryssa currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1997, when 98 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Maryssa performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 798 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Maryssa shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 197 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Maryssa in 15 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Maryssa 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 1,670 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.