Rissa

Peak · girls
1957 · 9 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
313
since 1947

Rissa over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Rissa has never cracked the top 4,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank18801900192019401960198020002020peak #4,202, 1957girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025—
2024#13,4776
2023—
2022#12,2437
2021—
2020#12,1427
2019#12,4487
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2015#13,0067
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2012#16,8695
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2009#12,4298
2008#11,5999
2007#10,12911
2006#13,6067
2005#11,8348
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2002#8,28012
2001#15,3525
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1998#14,1225
1997#13,7245
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1995#13,3865
1994#10,5697
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1992#9,4918
1991#10,2717
1990#8,5019
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1987#8,7787
1986#7,1349
1985#6,9559
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1983#10,2755
1982#6,37110
1981#8,1287
1980#8,1787
1979#5,75111
1978#9,7505
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1975#9,0675
1974#7,6806
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1972#8,2925
1971#8,3245
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1969#6,6176
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1967#6,0426
1966#5,8096
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1964#4,6369
1963#6,5925
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1961#6,5675
1960#4,7738
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1958#4,8907
1957#4,2029
1956#5,3256
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First appearance
1947

The first year at least five girls were named Rissa! It came in at #5,295, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1947–1955, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Rissa is popular in 2025

No state had 5 or more girls named Rissa in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Rissa
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2024
Rise & fade · girls
10 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1947
  • Peaked 1957 at #4,202 (9 births)
  • Births halved by 1959, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 145,933
  • Highest: 1 in 145,933 girls born in 1979 were named Rissa (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 270,032 girls born in 2024 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #4,202 in 1957, was only 1 in 227,206 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 19.2% of all girls named Rissa (60) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1940s10#5,244 (1949)#5,270
1950s22#4,202 (1957)#4,806
1960s45#4,636 (1964)#5,862
1970s37#5,751 (1979)#8,144
1980s54#6,371 (1982)#7,974
1990s46#8,501 (1990)#11,438
2000s60#8,280 (2002)#11,890
2010s19#12,448 (2019)#14,108
2020s20#12,142 (2020)#12,621

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.

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