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Brissa

#4,083 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Brissa has been given to 2,793 babies in the U.S. since 1979. In 2025 it ranked #4,083 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 230 recorded.

Babies named Brissa, 2025

1 in 94,700

Brissa over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Brissa: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Brissa means

Brissa is a given name.

The naming story behind Brissa

Wikidata records Brissa as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q133890093, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,793 girls were recorded with the name Brissa between 1979 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 230 in 2010; its best national rank was #1,083 in 2010.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,848 in 2020 to #4,083 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,103 in 2015 to #4,083 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Brissa?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 94,700
35 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 45,900
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,083
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
65,655 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Brissa sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 65,655 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Brissa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Brissas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Brissa was born before 2009 — so the typical Brissa is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
46.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
85.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,793
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 46.0% of all recorded uses (1,284).

Is Brissa rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−376
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−235
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,980
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.38×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
15.2%
Peak was 2010 (230)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,083
2010

Spellings of Brissa

Brissa is not the most common spelling — Marissa is, with 20.8% against Brissa's 0.48%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Brissa is used

Across 1910–2025, Brissa was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 38,296 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 14,286
  2. 2Texas1 in 14,286
  3. 3California1 in 25,000
  4. 4Colorado1 in 50,000
  5. 5New Mexico1 in 50,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 100,000
  7. 7Nevada1 in 100,000
  8. 8Washington1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Brissa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Brissa by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,083
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 235
Best rank ever
#1,083
2010
Peak year
2010
230 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,793
Count in 2025
35

Names similar to Brissa

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Brissa

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Brissa, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

ArionnaJaelaAbygailAriyanaKayleiRileighAdamariAbbygailJamiahKloeRileeGracey

Sibling names for Brissa

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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