Merrisa
Merrisa was last recorded in 1999, when 7 babies were given it; 144 Americans have been recorded with it between 1977 and 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Merrisa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Merrisa?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,214, in 1999; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
19 babies in 1994, the peak
Merrisa peaked in 1994, when 19 girls were given it, #5,159 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 7 | #12,214 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,543 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,018 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,516 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,159 | 10.6 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,237 | 5.0 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,261 | 3.8 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,243 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,963 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,733 | 8.1 |
Every recorded year (18)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 5 | #13,128 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,535 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,518 | 5.2 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,908 | 3.6 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,354 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,882 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,735 | 3.7 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,653 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Merrisa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Merrisa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 18 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Merrisa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Merrisa, and how old are they?
An estimated 140 Americans named Merrisa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 32 and 40. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 198 people named Merrisa (197 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 141 born in the U.S. The Census count is 40% 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 Merrisa?
Merrisa is a less common spelling of Merissa: SSA has recorded 144 Merrisa and 3,412 Merissa since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 4,288 babies since 1880, Merrisa is the fourth most given (3.4% 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 Merrisa
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 Merrisa and names like it
- Compare Merrisa and MerissaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMerrisa peaked in 1994.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Merrisa.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Merrisa alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.