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Marissa

Marissa means "of the sea", according to etymological references. It peaked back in the 1990s and has been gradually easing since. In the current registry, it is a name plenty of people share. Across the twelve decades this registry covers, it appears in 9 of them.

LatinLatin "maris"
EtymologyMeaning "of the sea"
Also spelled: Marisa
Births by decade
1900s
0
1910s
0
1920s
0
1930s
5
1940s
21
1950s
408
1960s
1,478
1970s
6,156
1980s
21,206
1990s
51,309
2000s
32,101
2010s
6,776
Peaked in the 1990s · 119,460 total U.S. births since 1900