Maurissa — girls' name

What the Data Says About Maurissa

The Social Security Administration has registered 639 babies named Maurissa between 1968 and 2017, spanning 50 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Maurissa currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2017. The name reached its historical peak in 1993, when 50 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Maurissa performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 293 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Maurissa shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 24 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Indiana and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Maurissa in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Maurissa 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 639 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.