Merisa
Merisa was last recorded in 2011, when 5 babies were given it; 555 Americans have been recorded with it between 1968 and 2011 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Merisa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Merisa?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,622, in 2011; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
29 babies in 1996, the peak
Merisa peaked in 1996, when 29 girls were given it, #3,788 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 5 | #18,622 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,298 | 3.4 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,556 | 5.8 |
| 2007 | 16 | #7,968 | 8.3 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,384 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,450 | 10.3 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,278 | 8.7 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,876 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,139 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,860 | 8.9 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 18 | #6,132 | 9.9 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,384 | 9.0 |
| 1998 | 24 | #4,579 | 13.6 |
| 1997 | 18 | #5,547 | 10.3 |
| 1996 | 29 | #3,788 | 16.5 |
| 1995 | 26 | #4,057 | 14.8 |
| 1994 | 26 | #4,079 | 14.6 |
| 1993 | 27 | #3,947 | 14.9 |
| 1992 | 24 | #4,329 | 13.0 |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,591 | 11.7 |
| 1990 | 19 | #4,990 | 10.0 |
| 1989 | 26 | #3,847 | 14.1 |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,145 | 5.1 |
| 1987 | 15 | #5,224 | 8.6 |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,883 | 9.3 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,768 | 5.8 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,905 | 3.6 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,528 | 6.0 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,684 | 5.9 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,694 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,180 | 6.6 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,761 | 5.0 |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,595 | 9.8 |
| 1977 | 10 | #6,174 | 6.5 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,868 | 6.8 |
| 1972 | 7 | #7,014 | 4.6 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,140 | 3.0 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,740 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Merisa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Merisa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Merisa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Merisa, and how old are they?
An estimated 542 Americans named Merisa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 26 and 39. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 645 people named Merisa (645 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 545 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 Merisa?
Merisa is a less common spelling of Merissa: SSA has recorded 555 Merisa and 3,412 Merissa since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 4,288 babies since 1880, Merisa is the second most given (13% of them).
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 Merisa
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 Merisa and names like it
- Compare Merisa and MerissaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMerisa peaked in 1996.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Merisa since 1910.
- The top names of 1996The year the most babies were named Merisa.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Merisa alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.