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Maryssa

Girls' name

Variant of Marissa

Maryssa has been given to 1,670 babies in the U.S. since 1977. 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 1997, with 98 recorded.

Babies named Maryssa, 2022

1 in 564,000

Maryssa 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maryssa: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Marissa

Spanish

What Maryssa means

Maryssa is a variant of Marissa.

Origin, language, and formation

Maryssa is used in English. Its origins include Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Marissa.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,670 girls were recorded with the name Maryssa between 1977 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 98 in 1997; its best national rank was #1,581 in 1995.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Maryssa?

Maryssa had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 564,000
6 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only
1 in 273,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
391,139 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maryssa 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 2022 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 391,139 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maryssa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maryssas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maryssa was born before 1999 — so the typical Maryssa is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
47.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
54.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,670
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 47.8% of all recorded uses (798).

Is Maryssa 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1997 (98)
Years since peak
28
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,581
1995

Spellings of Maryssa

Maryssa is not the most common spelling — Alyssa is, with 44.7% against Maryssa's 0.24%.

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 Maryssa is used

Across 1910–2025, Maryssa was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 163,771 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 100,000
  4. 4New Mexico1 in 100,000
  5. 5Ohio1 in 100,000
  6. 6Texas1 in 100,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in —
  8. 8Indiana1 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. Maryssa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Maryssa around the world

Where Maryssa 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.

  • France
    1996–2025
    #3,537
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Maryssa by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,581
1995
Peak year
1997
98 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
1,670
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Maryssa

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

MarrissaMaressaMarlissaMarysolMarlenyMariamaMarielyMarlinaMartineMariskaMarlanaMarissaMarlynnMarylynMarelynMaryleeMarnitaMarillaMarlinMarkieMaryanMarvellaMarleniMarlow

Sibling names for Maryssa

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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