Merrissa
Merrissa was last recorded in 2006, when 8 babies were given it; 177 Americans have been recorded with it between 1979 and 2006 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Merrissa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Merrissa?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,197, in 2006; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
16 babies in 1989, the peak
Merrissa peaked in 1989, when 16 girls were given it, #5,458 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 8 | #13,197 | 4.2 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,368 | 3.8 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,728 | 3.3 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,544 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,142 | 6.3 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,365 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,878 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,430 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,474 | 5.5 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,347 | 6.5 |
Every recorded year (19)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 7 | #11,055 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,341 | 7.4 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,458 | 8.7 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,258 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,814 | 7.5 |
| 1986 | 12 | #6,021 | 7.0 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,172 | 3.5 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,942 | 4.7 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,286 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Merrissa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Merrissa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 19 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Merrissa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Merrissa, and how old are they?
An estimated 173 Americans named Merrissa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 30 and 38. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 188 people named Merrissa (188 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 174 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above that prediction.
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 Merrissa?
Merrissa is a less common spelling of Merissa: SSA has recorded 177 Merrissa and 3,412 Merissa since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 4,288 babies since 1880, Merrissa is the third most given (4.1% 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 Merrissa
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 Merrissa and names like it
- Compare Merrissa and MerissaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sMerrissa peaked in 1989.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Merrissa.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Merrissa alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.