first name
MARISA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 48,703 people named Marisa, 54.1% reported their origin as White, 33.3% as Hispanic or Latino and 4.1% as Black. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Marisa peaked in 1995, when 2,198 babies got the name.
At least 48,773 babies have been given the name since 1934. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Marisa by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #394. The largest share of babies named Marisa, 42.7%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Marisa is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Marisa has been most common in New Mexico (2.5×), Hawaii (2.3×), and Arizona (1.9×), and least common in Mississippi (0.11×).
45,759 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Marisa, most common first.
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