How rare is the name Marissa?

111,567 people in the United States have the first name Marissa, about 1 in 2,707. It ranks #504 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

MARISSA

#504

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
111,567
About
1 in 2,707
This common or more
58.6%
Who bears it

Of the 111,567 people named Marissa, 57.2% reported their origin as White, 27.5% as Hispanic or Latino and 5.2% as Black. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Marissa peaked in 1994, when 6,260 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19362025
Peak year
1994
Births that year
6,260
In 2025*
123 ▼98%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 121,112 babies have been given the name since 1936. 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.

Marissa by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #140. The largest share of babies named Marissa, 46.8%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1930s#11,9535
1940s#9,18121
1950s#2,678408
1960s#1,4521,475
1970s#6746,151
1980s#28021,199
1990s#14051,314
2000s#23532,111
2010s#8257,423
2020s#2,5161,005
Silent Generation 1928–450%
Baby boom 1946–640.8%
Generation X 1965–807%
Millennials 1981–9646.8%
Generation Z 1997–1241.6%
2013 and later3.8%

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 Marissa is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Marissa has been most common in New Mexico (2.3×), Arizona (2.1×), and Nevada (2×), and least common in District of Columbia (0.26×).

118,632 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.

Either side of Marissa

#502 Deanna · 112,509#503 Jenny · 111,784#505 Melvin · 111,421#506 Bailey · 111,403

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Marissa, most common first.

#613 Marsha · 86,245#921 Marisa · 48,703#4,851 Marius · 3,705#4,903 Maris · 3,649#5,715 Marika · 2,944#6,576 Marija · 2,424#6,593 Mariusz · 2,416#7,388 Mariza · 2,071

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