Marissa
#1,673 for girls in 2025, 123 births · Last seen for boys in 2008 at #11,037
Given to girls 99.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1994 · 6,246 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- 17 yrsof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 120,842since 1936
Marissa over time
Rank among girls' names. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,673 | 123 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,492 | 146 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,544 | 138 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,309 | 180 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,236 | 190 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,081 | 228 | — | |
| 2019 | #874 | 307 | — | |
| 2018 | #883 | 306 | — | |
| 2017 | #678 | 433 | — | |
| 2016 | #595 | 507 | — | |
| 2015 | #534 | 583 | — | |
| 2014 | #466 | 683 | — | |
| 2013 | #377 | 820 | — | |
| 2012 | #320 | 1,007 | — | |
| 2011 | #257 | 1,245 | — | |
| 2010 | #202 | 1,532 | — | |
| 2009 | #183 | 1,796 | — | |
| 2008 | #155 | 2,174 | #11,037 | 6 |
| 2007 | #132 | 2,622 | — | |
| 2006 | #104 | 3,163 | — | |
| 2005 | #91 | 3,592 | — | |
| 2004 | #78 | 4,009 | #5,007 | 16 |
| 2003 | #95 | 3,517 | #8,643 | 7 |
| 2002 | #99 | 3,317 | — | |
| 2001 | #79 | 3,853 | #9,243 | 6 |
| 2000 | #78 | 4,025 | #7,416 | 8 |
| 1999 | #73 | 4,389 | #8,704 | 6 |
| 1998 | #66 | 4,722 | #6,314 | 9 |
| 1997 | #60 | 5,298 | #6,618 | 8 |
| 1996 | #59 | 5,752 | #7,136 | 7 |
| 1995 | #53 | 6,081 | #4,508 | 13 |
| 1994 | #53 | 6,246 | #4,290 | 14 |
| 1993 | #59 | 5,626 | #7,638 | 6 |
| 1992 | #72 | 4,873 | #6,670 | 7 |
| 1991 | #81 | 4,421 | #5,521 | 9 |
| 1990 | #87 | 3,806 | #2,952 | 21 |
| 1989 | #81 | 3,794 | #2,902 | 21 |
| 1988 | #101 | 2,810 | #4,162 | 11 |
| 1987 | #109 | 2,543 | #5,459 | 7 |
| 1986 | #115 | 2,443 | #3,268 | 14 |
| 1985 | #152 | 1,890 | #2,598 | 19 |
| 1984 | #170 | 1,627 | — | |
| 1983 | #170 | 1,620 | #3,630 | 11 |
| 1982 | #181 | 1,518 | #5,003 | 7 |
| 1981 | #187 | 1,453 | #4,509 | 8 |
| 1980 | #193 | 1,403 | — | |
| 1979 | #194 | 1,386 | #4,068 | 9 |
| 1978 | #218 | 1,147 | #3,857 | 9 |
| 1977 | #232 | 1,069 | #5,845 | 5 |
| 1976 | #349 | 614 | — | |
| 1975 | #482 | 381 | #4,797 | 6 |
| 1974 | #484 | 365 | — | |
| 1973 | #498 | 350 | — | |
| 1972 | #586 | 273 | — | |
| 1971 | #618 | 274 | — | |
| 1970 | #631 | 263 | — | |
| 1969 | #622 | 256 | — | |
| 1968 | #623 | 238 | — | |
| 1967 | #661 | 210 | — | |
| 1966 | #843 | 140 | — | |
| 1965 | #957 | 114 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,097 | 99 | — | |
| 1963 | #983 | 117 | — | |
| 1962 | #1,054 | 105 | — | |
| 1961 | #1,070 | 104 | — | |
| 1960 | #1,131 | 92 | — | |
| 1959 | #1,326 | 65 | — | |
| 1958 | #1,104 | 91 | — | |
| 1957 | #1,211 | 76 | — | |
| 1956 | #1,249 | 69 | — | |
| 1955 | #1,641 | 39 | — | |
| 1954 | #2,450 | 20 | — | |
| 1953 | #2,431 | 19 | — | |
| 1952 | #2,806 | 15 | — | |
| 1951 | #4,385 | 7 | — | |
| 1950 | #4,315 | 7 | — | |
| 1949 | #4,235 | 7 | — | |
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| 1947 | #4,345 | 7 | — | |
| 1946 | #3,994 | 7 | — | |
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| 1936 | #4,181 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Marissa! It came in at #4,181, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1936–1945, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Marissa
- 181 spots since 2024 (#1,492 → #1,673)
- 592 spots since 2020 (#1,081 → #1,673)
- 1,139 spots since 2015 (#534 → #1,673)
- Biggest jump: 182 spots in 1967 (#843 → #661)
- Biggest drop: 207 spots in 2020 (#874 → #1,081)
- Debuted 1936
- Peaked 1994 at #53 (6,246 births)
- Births halved by 2007, 13 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 17 yrs · run 1989–2005
- Top 1,000: 56 yrs · run 1965–2019
- Highest: 1 in 286 girls born in 1994 were named Marissa (0.35%)
- Latest: 1 in 13,067 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 42.4% of all girls named Marissa (51,214) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 5 | #4,181 (1936) | #4,181 |
| 1940s | 21 | #3,994 (1946) | #4,191 |
| 1950s | 408 | #1,104 (1958) | #2,292 |
| 1960s | 1,475 | #622 (1969) | #904 |
| 1970s | 6,122 | #194 (1979) | #429 |
| 1980s | 21,101 | #81 (1989) | #146 |
| 1990s | 51,214 | #53 (1994) | #66 |
| 2000s | 32,068 | #78 (2000) | #109 |
| 2010s | 7,423 | #202 (2010) | #519 |
| 2020s | 1,005 | #1,081 (2020) | #1,389 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Marissa in 1999
Top girls' names in 1999
Top boys' names in 1999
More about 1999
girls
1,773,823 girls got a published name in 1999; 1 in 404 of them was named Marissa, which outranked 99.6% of the 16,947 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,920,150 boys got a published name in 1999; 1 in 320,025 of them was named Marissa, which outranked 25.1% of the 11,614 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
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- #8,704Marissa6
- #8,704Aaditya6
- #8,704Aaronjames6
- #8,704Abba6
- #9,912Aadam5
- #9,912Aareon5
- #9,912Aaronjohn5
Tied with 1,207 names at #8,704; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.