Merisa
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Merisa has been given to 555 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 1996, with 29 recorded.
Babies named Merisa, 2011
1 in 732,000
Merisa 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Merisa?
Merisa had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2011
- 1 in 732,000
- 5 of 3,657,935 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 352,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2011
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 507,099 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Merisa sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2011 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 507,099 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Merisa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Merisas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Merisa was born before 1994 — so the typical Merisa is around 31 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 41.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 76.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 555
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 41.6% of all recorded uses (231).
Is Merisa 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 1996 (29)
- Years since peak
- 29
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 20.8% average annual change
Spellings of Merisa
Merisa is not the most common spelling — Melissa is, with 30.0% against Merisa's 0.02%.
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 Merisa is used
Across 1910–2025, Merisa was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 533,759 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 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. Merisa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Merisa around the world
Where Merisa 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.
- France2004–2010#7,152in 2010
- South Australia1981–1981#616in 1981
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Merisa by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Merisa
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Merisa
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.