Marisa

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Marisa: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Marisa: Recorded since 1966, its highest recorded position is #344, and it stood at #3,695 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
53times a registrar ranked it
59years from first to last
#344highest recorded position
12groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#823
1997	#750
1998	#628
1999	#653
2000	#897
2001	#871
2002	#1104
2003	#781
2004	#883
2005	#1243
2006	#1052
2007	#1160
2008	#1034
2009	#1209
2010	#1257
2011	#1269
2012	#1893
2013	#1400
2014	#1798
2015	#2195
2016	#2367
2017	#2925
2018	#1977
2019	#3151
2020	#2163
2021	#2073
2022	#3970
2023	#2504
2024	#3695

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Republic of Ireland in 24 of the 43 years from 1966 to 2008.

In 2008: #862 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1034 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1966–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1966
First recorded at #344 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1966 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded1966–2008
Highest recorded position: #344 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 1966 (recorded 1966–2008).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #3695 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Marisa appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 29 ranked years and 593 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Girls, from 1966.

Marisa across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Marisa's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#344 (1966)	#344 (1966)	#862 (2008)	24 of 43	99 (1966–2008)	7 (1979)
England and Wales · Girls	#823 (1996)	#628 (1998)	#3695 (2024)	29 of 29	593 (1996–2024)	40 (1998)

Marisa by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Marisa in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	135	4 of 10	34
2000sbusiest	256	10 of 10	26
2010s	156	10 of 10	16
2020s	46	5 of 10	9

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 26 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Marisa appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1966 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #344 in Republic of Ireland in 1966.

Marisa's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#3695	6	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2504	10	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#3970	5	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2073	13	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2163	12	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#3151	7	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1977	14	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2925	8	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2367	11	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2195	12	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1798	16	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1400	23	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1893	15	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1269	25	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1257	25	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1209	25	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1034	29	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1160	24	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1052	26	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1243	19	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#883	30	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#781	34	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1104	19	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#871	26	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#897	24	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#653	37	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#628	40	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#750	31	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#823	27	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#862	3	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#764	3	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#523	5	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#677	3	High	Verified
1998	Republic of Ireland	female	#498	3	High	Verified
1997	Republic of Ireland	female	#576	3	High	Verified
1996	Republic of Ireland	female	#471	4	High	Verified
1993	Republic of Ireland	female	#415	5	High	Verified
1992	Republic of Ireland	female	#417	5	High	Verified
1991	Republic of Ireland	female	#515	3	High	Verified
1990	Republic of Ireland	female	#517	3	High	Verified
1988	Republic of Ireland	female	#442	4	High	Verified
1987	Republic of Ireland	female	#488	3	High	Verified
1986	Republic of Ireland	female	#521	3	High	Verified
1985	Republic of Ireland	female	#421	5	High	Verified
1982	Republic of Ireland	female	#369	7	High	Verified
1981	Republic of Ireland	female	#423	5	High	Verified
1980	Republic of Ireland	female	#432	5	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	female	#363	7	High	Verified
1978	Republic of Ireland	female	#428	5	High	Verified
1977	Republic of Ireland	female	#518	3	High	Verified
1973	Republic of Ireland	female	#449	4	High	Verified
1972	Republic of Ireland	female	#428	4	High	Verified
1966	Republic of Ireland	female	#344	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1966 and 2024, ranked in 46 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #344, first reached in 1966.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 40 births, registered in England and Wales in 1998.

Its record falls into 6 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 5 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 30 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Marissa · #294, 44y
Marit · #3, 81y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Miroslav · #346, 48y
Rahel · #342, 41y
Dawit · #348, 45y
Violeta · #338, 46y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Bridin · #344, 19y
Catrina · #343, 27y
Gwendolyn · #343, 34y
Samson · #342, 44y

Marisa was ranked #344 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 1966. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Marisa and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Marisa without appearing here.

Marisa moved ahead of

Cheryl Compare
In 2019 they stood at #3151 and #2286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2163 and #5493.
Tracy Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3970 and #3970 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #2504 and #5687.
Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #1977 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #3151 and #5591.
Shauna Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3970 and #3970 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #2504 and #4709.

Moved ahead of Marisa

Rory Compare
In 2021 they stood at #2073 and #2201 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #3970 and #1452.
Wendy Compare
In 2021 they stood at #2073 and #2201 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #3970 and #1767.
Janice Compare
In 2021 they stood at #2073 and #3961 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #3970 and #1948.
Noah Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2504 and #3218 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3695 and #1743.

Moved the opposite way to Marisa

Aisling Compare
Between 1966 and 2008 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Marisa went from #344 to #862 while Aisling went from #100 to #41.
Alexandra Compare
Between 1966 and 2008 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Marisa went from #344 to #862 while Alexandra went from #288 to #92.
Anna Compare
Between 1966 and 2008 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Marisa went from #344 to #862 while Anna went from #36 to #20.
Caoimhe Compare
Between 1966 and 2008 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Marisa went from #344 to #862 while Caoimhe went from #380 to #16.

Moved the same way as Marisa

Audrey Compare
Between 1966 and 2008 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Marisa went from #344 to #862 and Audrey from #63 to #469.
Camilla Compare
Between 1966 and 2008 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Marisa went from #344 to #862 and Camilla from #236 to #501.
Deirdre Compare
Between 1966 and 2008 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Marisa went from #344 to #862 and Deirdre from #7 to #403.
Eileen Compare
Between 1966 and 2008 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Marisa went from #344 to #862 and Eileen from #18 to #230.

What's not yet available

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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1966 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #344 in Republic of Ireland in 1966. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Marisa

Marisa at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Marisa across 2 official records

Marisa by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Marisa appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1960s

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Marisa at a glance

Marisa across 2 official records

Marisa by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Marisa appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Marisa

Marisa and the names beside it

Marisa moved ahead of

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