Lorissa
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 9 babies a year in the US.
Lorissa by the numbers
Lorissa was given to 9 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 49 babies in 1994, so it is a 1990s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Lorissa
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Lorissa. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Larissacheerful or citadel205 in the US (2017)
- Louisafamous warrior; feminine form of Louis369 in the US (2017)
- Larisacheerful; a form of Larissa7 in England and Wales (2025)
- Lorianafrom Laurentum; a form of Lauriana17 in the US (2017)
- Lissabee; a form of Melissa14 in the US (2017)
- Laryssacitadel; a form of larissa9 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Lorissa
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