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Raissa

Girls' name

Form of Herais

Raissa has been given to 545 babies in the U.S. since 1959. 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 1989, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Raissa, 2024

1 in 371,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Raissa: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Herais

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Raissa means

Raissa is a form of Herais.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Raissa is used in Portuguese, Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /rɐ.ˈi.sə/ for Raissa.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Herais.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 545 girls were recorded with the name Raissa between 1959 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 20 in 1989; its best national rank was #4,622 in 1989.

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 Raissa?

Raissa 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 371,000
9 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 180,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
257,451 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Raissa 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 2024 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 257,451 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Raissa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Raissas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Raissa was born before 1997 — so the typical Raissa is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
24.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
42.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
545
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 24.2% of all recorded uses (132).

Is Raissa 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 1989 (20)
Years since peak
36
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,622
1989

Spellings of Raissa

Raissa is not the most common spelling — Marissa is, with 33.9% against Raissa's 0.15%.

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 Raissa is used

Across 1910–2025, Raissa was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,000,798 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 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. Raissa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Raissa around the world

Where Raissa 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 & Wales
    2005–2024
    #4,844
    in 2024
  • France
    1972–2025
    #1,610
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2023
    #3,391
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1999–2003
    #739
    in 2003

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Raissa 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
#4,622
1989
Peak year
1989
20 that year
First recorded
1959
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
545
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Raissa

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

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Sibling names for Raissa

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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