Marisha
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Marisha has been given to 1,547 babies in the U.S. since 1955. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1992, with 72 recorded.
Babies named Marisha, 2024
1 in 669,000
Marisha over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Marisha?
Marisha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 669,000
- 5 of 3,342,801 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 324,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 463,412 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Marisha sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marisha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Marishas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Marisha was born before 1987 — so the typical Marisha is around 38 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 35.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 10.0%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,547
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 35.0% of all recorded uses (542).
Is Marisha 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1992 (72)
- Years since peak
- 33
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 17.6% average annual change
Spellings of Marisha
Marisha is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 27.4% against Marisha's 0.07%.
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 Marisha is used
Across 1910–2025, Marisha was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 273,338 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).
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. Marisha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Marisha around the world
Where Marisha ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales1996–2017#5,765in 2017
- Scotland1998–1998#664in 1998
- Canada1994–1996#2,558in 1996
- South Australia1976–2005#775in 2005
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Marisha by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Marisha
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Marisha
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.