girls:
3.4k births since 1962
#2965 (48th percentile)
overall:
3.4k births since 1962
#4684 (39th percentile)
The name Merissa is the #4,684 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,412 recorded births since 1962. This represents the 39.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 39.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,965 (48.1% percentile) for all time with 3,412 births since 1962.
Merissa first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1962 (first recorded for girls in 1962). Birth data for Merissa is available in 53 out of the 58 years between 1962 and 2019. 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, Merissa reached its peak popularity in 1995, achieving the 19.7% percentile (ranked #682) with 90 births per million. The name was most common in 1995, with 90 births per million (ranked 19.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2019.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Merissa".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Merissa", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 20 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Marissa" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Marissa..
Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Merissa. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 35.1% confident that Merissa is pronounced as mer-IH-suh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is meh-RIH-suh, at 27.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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