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Marissa
Pronounced /məˈɹɪsə/
Rank in 2024
#1,497
Born in 2024
145
Peak year
1994 · #53
Origin
Spanish
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 145 girls were named Marissa, about 1 in every 11,125.
- It peaked in 1994 with 6,245 babies, ranked #53.
- It first shows up in the records in 1936.
- 120,711 girls have been named Marissa since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Marissa per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- 0.3Gen X1965–80
- 2.0Millennials1981–96
- 1.7Gen Z1997–12
- 0.2Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 5 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 946 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Gen X: 8,483 babies, 0.33 per 1,000. Millennials: 56,505 babies, 2.00 per 1,000. Gen Z: 50,259 babies, 1.73 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 4,513 babies, 0.22 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
- A female given name from Spanish, a contraction of Maria Lisa or Maria Luisa, though sometimes regarded as a re-interpretation of the name Melissa as a homophone in another European language.
- Origin
- Spanish
- Say it
- /məˈɹɪsə/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Marissa, CC BY-SA 4.0.