Morrissey — boys' name

What the Data Says About Morrissey

The Social Security Administration has registered 22 babies named Morrissey between 2008 and 2017, spanning 10 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Morrissey currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2017. The name reached its historical peak in 2013, when 7 babies received it in a single year. Morrissey is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 5 additional births since 2012.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Morrissey performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 17 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Morrissey shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Morrissey in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Morrissey 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 22 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.