Marisa

Where Marisa comes from

The dictionaries list Marisa as a given name — a female given name from Spanish, variant of Marissa — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Spanish
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1934
    First appearance
    #4,286 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1964
    Marisa Tomei born
    American actress
  3. 1978
    Marisa Miller born
    American model
  4. 1995
    Peak, #147
    2,198 babies named Marisa — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2000
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #302.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Spanish, variant of Marissa.
Namesakes
  • Marisa Tomei · American actress, born 1964
  • Marisa Miller · American model, born 1978
  • Marisa Berenson · American actress and model, born 1947
  • Marisa Mell · Austrian actress, 1939–1992
  • Marisa Monte · Brazilian actress, born 1967

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.