Rissa
Rissa was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 313 Americans have been recorded with it between 1947 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rissa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rissa?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,918, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
12 babies in 2002, the peak
Rissa peaked in 2002, when 12 girls were given it, #8,711 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #14,918 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 7 | #13,304 | 4.3 |
| 2020 | 7 | #13,190 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,516 | 4.2 |
| 2015 | 7 | #14,206 | 3.9 |
| 2012 | 5 | #18,979 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,432 | 4.4 |
| 2008 | 9 | #12,385 | 4.8 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,668 | 5.7 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,802 | 3.7 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 8 | #12,764 | 4.3 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,711 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,358 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 5 | #16,025 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,574 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,204 | 2.8 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,489 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,237 | 4.3 |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,203 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 9 | #9,048 | 4.7 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,551 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,585 | 5.2 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,412 | 5.2 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,582 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,742 | 5.9 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,816 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,833 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 11 | #6,060 | 6.9 |
| 1978 | 5 | #11,029 | 3.3 |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,202 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,462 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,273 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,285 | 3.0 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,256 | 3.6 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,611 | 3.6 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,398 | 3.5 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,915 | 4.7 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,403 | 2.6 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,320 | 2.5 |
| 1960 | 8 | #5,090 | 4.0 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,292 | 3.5 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,469 | 4.4 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,815 | 3.0 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,881 | 2.9 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,952 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rissa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rissa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rissa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rissa, and how old are they?
An estimated 294 Americans named Rissa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 21 and 52. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 507 people named Rissa (505 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 281 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 times 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 Rissa?
Rissa is a less common spelling of Risa: SSA has recorded 313 Rissa and 4,177 Risa since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 5,881 babies since 1880, Rissa is the third most given (5.3% of them). In 2025 none of their 52 babies recorded by SSA was a Rissa (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Rissa
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 Rissa and names like it
- Compare Rissa and RisaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sRissa peaked in 2002.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Rissa.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Rissa alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with RMost given first.