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Marisa

Marisa is a girl's name meaning "Latin maris, of the sea", drawing on Latin roots. It belongs mostly to the 1990s at this point. These days, it is neither rare nor overly common. Since 1900, roughly 48,382 babies in the U.S. have been given this name.

EtymologyVariant of Marissa
LatinLatin "maris" – "of the sea"
Also spelled: Marissa
Births by decade
1900s
0
1910s
0
1920s
0
1930s
17
1940s
43
1950s
1,313
1960s
3,422
1970s
8,348
1980s
10,387
1990s
15,542
2000s
7,776
2010s
1,534
Peaked in the 1990s · 48,382 total U.S. births since 1900