Merissa — girls' name

What the Data Says About Merissa

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,412 babies named Merissa between 1962 and 2019, spanning 58 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Merissa currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 1995, when 172 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Merissa performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 1,400 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Merissa shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 465 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Merissa in 22 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Merissa 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 3,412 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.