girls:
2.4k births since 1970
#3512 (39th percentile)
overall:
2.4k births since 1970
#5397 (30th percentile)
The name Arissa is the #5,397 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,429 recorded births since 1970. This represents the 30.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 30.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,512 (38.5% percentile) for all time with 2,429 births since 1970.
Arissa first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1970 (first recorded for girls in 1970). Birth data for Arissa is available in 48 out of the 54 years between 1970 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Arissa reached its peak popularity in 2003, achieving the 23.6% percentile (ranked #693) with 110 births per million. The name was most common in 2003, with 110 births per million (ranked 23.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2007, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Arissa ranks #924 for girls (2.4% percentile) with 16 births per million, which is 14.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Arissa".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Arissa. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 65.7% confident that Arissa is pronounced as uh-RIH-suh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is er-IH-suh, at 20.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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