Marissa

Where Marissa comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Marissa.

  • Spanish
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Marissa through the years
  1. 1936
    First appearance
    #4,181 among girls with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1994
    Peak, #53
    6,246 babies named Marissa, the most in any year.
  3. 2007
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #132.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Spanish, a contraction of Maria Lisa or Maria Luisa, though sometimes regarded as a re-interpretation of the name Melissa as a homophone in another European language.
Namesakes

No widely recognized namesakes for Marissa in Wikidata.

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.