Marissa

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)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Marissa".

1936 2023 19362023

Key Statistics

Total Births
120,558
Peak Births
6,245
Peak Year
1995
First Recorded
1936
Peak Percentile
93.9%
Current Percentile
14.0%
Peak Rank
#53
Current Rank
#815
Female statistics
Total Births
270
Peak Births
21
Peak Year
1989
First Recorded
1975
Peak Percentile
2.6%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#659
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Marissa

Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Marissa. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 73.9% confident that Marissa is pronounced as muh-RIH-suh. The next most likely pronunciation is mer-IH-suh, at 13.0% confidence.

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Marissa. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Marissa, please vote using the thumbs up button.

mah-REE-suh (3 syllables)
7 names 50.9k births
M AA0 R IY1 S AH0
meh-RIH-suh (3 syllables)
7 names 4.5k births
M EH0 R IH1 S AH0

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like M AH0 R IH1 S AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.