Girls' name · since 1985
Mirissa
222 babies named Mirissa in U.S. Social Security records since 1985, with the highest year being 1996. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 222
- total births
- 1985–2008
- years on record
- 1990s
- peak decade
- 56%
- born in that decade
222 girls have been named Mirissa since 1985, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Mirissa has 222 recorded births among girls since 1985, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1990s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1985 to 2008.
- 222 total births
- 1985–2008 years on record
- 1990s peak decade
- 56% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Mirissa's 222 recorded births place it above 74% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Mirissa's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Mirissa's full recorded timeline at 1996, 43% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 57% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1985, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1996 peak of 18 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Mirissa popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1985–2008
- Peak year (1996)
- 18
- Annual births at peak, across 24 years of records
Mirissa by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1990s was Mirissa's strongest decade.
124 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 56% of all-time use.
Mirissa births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1980s 49
1980s
49 births
- 1990s
1990s
124 births
- 2000s 49
2000s
49 births
What this shows Peak: 1990s at 124 births (56% of all-time use).
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- Mirissa's usage has stayed within range of its 1990s decade-level peak (124 total births) through the 2000s (49) -- a comparatively stable name, not a fading trend.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1985–2008 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Mirissa: Baby Name Since 1985 - 222 Births, Peak 1996." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/mirissa. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Mirissa draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.