How popular is “Marissa” in the USA?

Number of people named “Marissa” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Marissa” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Marissa” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Marissa” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Marissa” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Marissa” by birth year

This chart shows how “Marissa” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1936	5	0.000002407	5		100%
1946	7	0.000002191	7		100%
1947	7	0.000001943	7		100%
1949	7	0.000002009	7		100%
1950	7	0.000001998	7		100%
1951	7	0.0000019	7		100%
1952	15	0.000003949	15		100%
1953	19	0.00000493	19		100%
1954	20	0.000005024	20		100%
1955	39	0.000009713	39		100%
1956	69	0.000016735	69		100%
1957	76	0.000018086	76		100%
1958	91	0.000022013	91		100%
1959	65	0.000015633	65		100%
1960	92	0.000022148	92		100%
1961	104	0.000025107	104		100%
1962	105	0.00002602	105		100%
1963	117	0.000029559	117		100%
1964	99	0.000025466	99		100%
1965	114	0.000031444	114		100%
1966	140	0.00004028	140		100%
1967	210	0.000061858	210		100%
1968	238	0.000070447	238		100%
1969	256	0.000073662	256		100%
1970	263	0.000072924	263		100%
1971	274	0.000079829	274		100%
1972	273	0.00008686	273		100%
1973	351	0.000116345	351		100%
1974	365	0.000120066	365		100%
1975	387	0.000128171	381	6	97%
1976	615	0.000202683	615		100%
1977	1073	0.000337794	1068	5	99%
1978	1156	0.000364224	1147	9	98%
1979	1394	0.000418996	1385	9	99%
1980	1403	0.000407315	1403		100%
1981	1461	0.000422331	1453	8	99%
1982	1526	0.00043501	1519	7	99%
1983	1631	0.000470933	1620	11	99%
1984	1627	0.000466355	1627		100%
1985	1909	0.000534867	1890	19	98%
1986	2456	0.000690454	2442	14	99%
1987	2551	0.000707508	2544	7	99%
1988	2821	0.000763455	2810	11	99%
1989	3815	0.00099234	3794	21	99%
1990	3827	0.000968253	3806	21	99%
1991	4430	0.001137278	4421	9	100%
1992	4880	0.001270412	4873	7	100%
1993	5632	0.001493789	5626	6	100%
1994	6259	0.001683589	6245	14	100%
1995	6095	0.001664321	6082	13	100%
1996	5760	0.001579296	5753	7	100%
1997	5306	0.001463422	5298	8	100%
1998	4731	0.001286224	4722	9	100%
1999	4395	0.00118981	4389	6	100%
2000	4033	0.001066958	4025	8	100%
2001	3859	0.001030884	3853	6	100%
2002	3317	0.000887304	3317		100%
2003	3524	0.000926803	3517	7	100%
2004	4025	0.00105341	4009	16	99%
2005	3592	0.000934238	3592		100%
2006	3163	0.000799507	3163		100%
2007	2622	0.00065588	2622		100%
2008	2180	0.000554614	2174	6	99%
2009	1796	0.000470136	1796		100%
2010	1532	0.000414531	1532		100%
2011	1244	0.000340096	1244		100%
2012	1006	0.000275061	1006		100%
2013	819	0.00022465	819		100%
2014	681	0.000183737	681		100%
2015	581	0.000156988	581		100%
2016	507	0.000138196	507		100%
2017	433	0.000121078	433		100%
2018	306	0.000087033	306		100%
2019	307	0.000088449	307		100%
2020	227	0.000067952	227		100%
2021	189	0.000055786	189		100%
2022	180	0.000053205	180		100%
2023	138	0.000041677	138		100%
2024	145	0.000043563	145		100%

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