Nerissa

girls:

2k births since 1915

#3857 (33rd percentile)

overall:

2k births since 1915

#5811 (25th percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

1915 2021 19152021

Key Statistics

Total Births
1,957
Peak Births
73
Peak Year
1979
First Recorded
1915
Peak Percentile
8.7%
Current Percentile
0.3%
Peak Rank
#558
Current Rank
#933
Female statistics

How to Pronounce Nerissa

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

Our model is 50.0% confident that Nerissa is pronounced as ner-IH-suh. The next most likely pronunciation is ner-EE-suh, at 28.9% confidence.

ner-IH-suh (3 syllables)
50.0% confidence
N ER0 IH1 S AH0
ner-EE-suh (3 syllables)
28.9% confidence
N ER0 IY1 S AH0
neh-RIH-suh (3 syllables)
15.8% confidence
N EH0 R IH1 S AH0
NEH-rih-suh (3 syllables)
5.3% confidence
N EH1 R IH0 S AH0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

nuh-RIH-suh (3 syllables)
4 names 857 births
N AH0 R IH1 S AH0
nuh-REE-suh (3 syllables)
4 names 815 births
N AH0 R IY1 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 N ER0 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.