girls:
120.6k births since 1936
#320 (94th percentile)
boys:
270 births since 1975
#4316 (6th percentile)
overall:
120.8k births since 1936
#601 (92nd percentile)
The name Marissa is the #601 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 120,828 recorded births since 1936. This represents the 92.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 92.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #320 (94.4% percentile) for all time with 120,558 births since 1936. For boys, it ranks #4,316 (5.8% percentile) for all time with 270 births since 1975.
Marissa first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1936 (1936 for girls and 1975 for boys). Birth data for Marissa is available in 78 out of the 88 years between 1936 and 2023 (78 years for girls and 27 years for boys). 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.
The name Marissa has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Marissa reached its peak popularity in 1995, achieving the 93.9% percentile (ranked #53) with 3,165 births per million. The name was most common in 1994, with 3,204 births per million (ranked 93.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1997, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Marissa ranks #815 for girls (14.0% percentile) with 78 births per million, which is 2.4% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Marissa reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 2.6% percentile (ranked #737) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 10 births per million (ranked 2.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2008.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Marissa".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Marissa. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 73.9% confident that Marissa is pronounced as muh-RIH-suh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is mer-IH-suh, at 13.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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