Merissa
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 6 babies a year in the US.
Merissa by the numbers
Merissa was given to 6 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 172 babies in 1995, so it is a 1990s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Merissa
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 Merissa. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Melissahoney bee1,168 in the US (2017)
- Marissaof the sea; form of Maria or Maris427 in the US (2017)
- Marisaof the sea; a form of Maria88 in the US (2017)
- Melisabee; a spelling variant of Melissa47 in England and Wales (2025)
- Mariskaof the sea; a form of Marisa25 in the US (2017)
- Melyssahoney bee; a modern spelling of Melissa18 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Merissa
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