Risa
#5,554 for girls in 2025, 22 births
- Peak · girls
- 1966 · 124 births
- Debut · girls
- 12 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,177since 1942
Risa over time
Rank among girls' names. Risa has never cracked the top 900 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,554 | 22 |
| 2024 | #7,251 | 15 |
| 2023 | #8,989 | 11 |
| 2022 | #6,984 | 16 |
| 2021 | #7,630 | 14 |
| 2020 | #7,559 | 14 |
| 2019 | #5,986 | 20 |
| 2018 | #5,315 | 24 |
| 2017 | #5,517 | 23 |
| 2016 | #5,284 | 25 |
| 2015 | #7,266 | 16 |
| 2014 | #5,025 | 27 |
| 2013 | #7,031 | 17 |
| 2012 | #4,387 | 33 |
| 2011 | #4,681 | 30 |
| 2010 | #5,977 | 22 |
| 2009 | #6,091 | 22 |
| 2008 | #4,761 | 31 |
| 2007 | #4,808 | 30 |
| 2006 | #6,356 | 20 |
| 2005 | #5,113 | 25 |
| 2004 | #4,172 | 33 |
| 2003 | #3,187 | 46 |
| 2002 | #2,976 | 49 |
| 2001 | #3,940 | 32 |
| 2000 | #3,169 | 43 |
| 1999 | #3,443 | 36 |
| 1998 | #2,530 | 54 |
| 1997 | #3,036 | 39 |
| 1996 | #3,569 | 31 |
| 1995 | #2,394 | 54 |
| 1994 | #2,585 | 48 |
| 1993 | #3,108 | 37 |
| 1992 | #2,351 | 55 |
| 1991 | #2,519 | 49 |
| 1990 | #1,938 | 71 |
| 1989 | #2,527 | 45 |
| 1988 | #1,891 | 65 |
| 1987 | #2,360 | 44 |
| 1986 | #2,384 | 42 |
| 1985 | #2,100 | 50 |
| 1984 | #1,751 | 62 |
| 1983 | #1,733 | 62 |
| 1982 | #1,991 | 52 |
| 1981 | #1,734 | 65 |
| 1980 | #2,096 | 49 |
| 1979 | #1,753 | 62 |
| 1978 | #2,050 | 46 |
| 1977 | #2,002 | 48 |
| 1976 | #1,865 | 49 |
| 1975 | #1,640 | 59 |
| 1974 | #1,598 | 59 |
| 1973 | #1,732 | 51 |
| 1972 | #1,607 | 56 |
| 1971 | #1,389 | 76 |
| 1970 | #1,681 | 55 |
| 1969 | #1,303 | 75 |
| 1968 | #1,190 | 83 |
| 1967 | #1,219 | 76 |
| 1966 | #905 | 124 |
| 1965 | #933 | 119 |
| 1964 | #1,042 | 108 |
| 1963 | #973 | 119 |
| 1962 | #925 | 131 |
| 1961 | #1,023 | 113 |
| 1960 | #954 | 125 |
| 1959 | #1,036 | 105 |
| 1958 | #1,112 | 90 |
| 1957 | #1,226 | 74 |
| 1956 | #1,056 | 94 |
| 1955 | #1,043 | 93 |
| 1954 | #1,241 | 64 |
| 1953 | #1,439 | 46 |
| 1952 | #1,505 | 41 |
| 1951 | #1,505 | 39 |
| 1950 | #1,352 | 46 |
| 1949 | #1,323 | 48 |
| 1948 | #1,778 | 28 |
| 1947 | #1,661 | 33 |
| 1946 | #2,597 | 14 |
| 1945 | #1,514 | 29 |
| 1944 | #2,625 | 12 |
| 1943 | #4,691 | 5 |
| 1942 | #2,666 | 12 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Risa! It came in at #2,666, and was given to 12 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1943, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Risa is popular in 1976
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#1,064 · 1 in 11,145
- Texas#1,365 · 1 in 16,117
- California#1,957 · 1 in 28,773
Best ever in a state: #393 in Kansas, 1971.
Show every state
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| New York | #1,064 | 9 | 1 in 11,145 |
| Texas | #1,365 | 6 | 1 in 16,117 |
| California | #1,957 | 5 | 1 in 28,773 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Risa
- 1,697 spots since 2024 (#7,251 → #5,554)
- 2,005 spots since 2020 (#7,559 → #5,554)
- 1,712 spots since 2015 (#7,266 → #5,554)
- Biggest jump: 109 spots in 1965 (#1,042 → #933)
- Biggest drop: 314 spots in 1967 (#905 → #1,219)
- Debuted 1942
- Peaked 1966 at #905 (124 births)
- Births halved by 1970, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 5 yrs · run 1962–1963
- Highest: 1 in 13,647 girls born in 1966 were named Risa (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 73,058 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 25.7% of all girls named Risa (1,073) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1940s | 181 | #1,323 (1949) | #2,357 |
| 1950s | 692 | #1,036 (1959) | #1,252 |
| 1960s | 1,073 | #905 (1966) | #1,047 |
| 1970s | 561 | #1,389 (1971) | #1,732 |
| 1980s | 536 | #1,733 (1983) | #2,057 |
| 1990s | 474 | #1,938 (1990) | #2,747 |
| 2000s | 331 | #2,976 (2002) | #4,457 |
| 2010s | 237 | #4,387 (2012) | #5,647 |
| 2020s | 92 | #5,554 (2025) | #7,328 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Risa in 1976
Top girls' names in 1976
More about 1976
girls
1,465,099 girls got a published name in 1976; 1 in 29,900 of them was named Risa, which outranked 82.9% of the 10,913 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,840Wendie50
- #1,840Xiomara50
- #1,840Yalonda50
- #1,865Risa49
- #1,865Adelina49
- #1,865Atiya49
- #1,865Camie49
- #1,883Caterina48
- #1,883Chanelle48
- #1,883Christinia48
Tied with 17 names at #1,865; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.