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Maurissa

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Maurissa has been given to 639 babies in the U.S. since 1968. 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 1993, with 50 recorded.

Babies named Maurissa, 2017

1 in 596,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maurissa: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Maurissa means

Maurissa is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Maurissa is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 639 girls were recorded with the name Maurissa between 1968 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 50 in 1993; its best national rank was #2,503 in 1993.

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 Maurissa?

Maurissa had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017
1 in 596,000
6 of 3,577,106 births
Among girls only
1 in 288,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2017
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
413,245 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maurissa 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 2017 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 413,245 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maurissa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maurissas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maurissa was born before 1994 — so the typical Maurissa is around 31 today.

Median birth year
1994
About 31 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
45.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
59.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
639
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 45.9% of all recorded uses (293).

Is Maurissa 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 1993 (50)
Years since peak
32
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,503
1993

Spellings of Maurissa

Maurissa is not the most common spelling — Marissa is, with 44.9% against Maurissa'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 Maurissa is used

Across 1910–2025, Maurissa was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 976,401 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3Indiana1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 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. Maurissa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Maurissa 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
—
Best rank ever
#2,503
1993
Peak year
1993
50 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
639
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Maurissa

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

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Sibling names for Maurissa

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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