# Marisa (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/marisa/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Spanish |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 48,773 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 66 / 48,707 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 601, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 308 | 859 |
| 2012 | 258 | 977 |
| 2013 | 172 | 1,358 |
| 2014 | 175 | 1,342 |
| 2015 | 108 | 1,891 |
| 2016 | 98 | 2,028 |
| 2017 | 88 | 2,176 |
| 2018 | 54 | 3,034 |
| 2019 | 62 | 2,742 |
| 2020 | 68 | 2,539 |
| 2021 | 40 | 3,780 |
| 2022 | 37 | 4,016 |
| 2023 | 45 | 3,510 |
| 2024 | 38 | 3,939 |
| 2025 | 25 | 5,178 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 5 | 5,991 |
| 1977 | 13 | 3,139 |
| 1978 | 6 | 5,523 |
| 1979 | 5 | 6,684 |
| 1983 | 5 | 6,924 |
| 1985 | 6 | 6,240 |
| 1988 | 11 | 4,352 |
| 1989 | 8 | 6,006 |
| 1993 | 7 | 7,320 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 25 | 1,269 |
| 2012 | 15 | 1,893 |
| 2013 | 23 | 1,400 |
| 2014 | 16 | 1,798 |
| 2015 | 12 | 2,195 |
| 2016 | 11 | 2,367 |
| 2017 | 8 | 2,925 |
| 2018 | 14 | 1,977 |
| 2019 | 7 | 3,151 |
| 2020 | 12 | 2,163 |
| 2021 | 13 | 2,073 |
| 2022 | 5 | 3,970 |
| 2023 | 10 | 2,504 |
| 2024 | 6 | 3,695 |
| 2025 | 8 | 3,035 |

## People named Marisa

- Marisa Tomei, American actress (born 1964)
- Marisa Miller, American model
- Marisa Berenson, American actress and model (b. 1947)
- Marisa Mell, Austrian actress (1939–1992)
- Marisa Monte, Brazilian singer
- Marisa Abela, English actress
- Marisa Solinas, actress (1941–2019)
- Marisa Ramirez, American actress
- Marisa Coughlan, American actress
- Marisa Letícia Lula da Silva, 35th First Lady of Brazil (1950–2017)
- Marisa Davila, American actress (born 1997)
- Marisa Petroro, American model and actress

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.