Marisa

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Marisa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. In Portugal it is the 93rd most common given name. Recorded meaning: Variant of Maria/Marie, from Hebrew Miryam.

rarermore common
  • PTPortugal≈1 in 703(inferred from the name graph)
  • ARArgentina≈1 in 817
  • ITItaly≈1 in 1.7K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Marisa itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Philippines (inferred from the name graph)

≈150,000 named Marissa, est.

#988 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

6 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
532 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 703 (inferred from the name graph)

Portugal, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MarissaLatin(measured from records)
מריסהHebrew(measured from records)
МаризаCyrillic(measured from records)
ΜαρίσαGreek(measured from records)
ማርሳEthiopic(measured from records)
მარისაGeorgian(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Marissa in US United States, PH Philippines.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Variant of Maria/Marie, from Hebrew Miryam.

Sources 1

  • Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Marisa counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Marisa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines#112≈150,000 est.≈1 in 712—Marissa140
US United States#644111,567as Marissa1 in 3K111KMarissa532
BR Brazil#32286,0151 in 2.5K96KMarisa178
AR Argentina#240≈56,000 est.≈1 in 81767Marisa132
IT Italy#303≈36,000 est.≈1 in 1.7K19Marisa151
PT Portugal#93≈15,000 est.≈1 in 703listedMarisa134

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); the pt-irn-lista-nomes register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Marisa is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Philippines

    Languages: English, German, Norwegian

    Also written Marísa, Mariša, Marìsa, Marişa

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Mārisā, Marísa

  • French given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Spain

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Marïsa, Mãrįsã, Mariša, Märïsä

  • Indonesian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Marisa

  • Hungarian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Hungary, Spain, Finland

    Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Marisä

59 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Marisa is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Elaboration of MARIAN. See main dictionary.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • In Spanish, contracción de María Luisa

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

  • In French, Peut venir de Maryse (variante de Marie) ou de Maresha, d’origine hébraïque, « colline ».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In German, ) Marise: weibl. Vom., Doppel- *57

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • respectable; worthy

    as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19201940196019802000Marisa Merlini, b. 1923Marisa Allasio, b. 1936Marisa Mell, b. 1939Marisa Berenson, b. 1947Marisa Tomei, b. 1964Kerry Washington, b. 1977Natalia Oreiro, b. 1977Marisa Miller, b. 1978Mimicat, b. 1984Marisa Abela, b. 1996

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 98 sources across 51 countries.

Official registers attesting Marisa
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—96K#483
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202286K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—86K#360
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202049K#921
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)2020338—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—324#360
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202057#921
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202525—
IT ItalyISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend)202419#620
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present)202418#1,661
AR Argentinadatos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015)201513—
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror)201513—

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Marisa mean, and where does it come from?
Variant of Maria/Marie, from Hebrew Miryam. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
How common is the name Marisa?
In Brazil, the national register counted 86,015 people named Marisa in 2022, about 1 in 2.5 thousand residents.
How common is Marisa compared with other names?
In the Philippines, Marisa is the 112th most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
Is Marisa a male or female name?
Marisa is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What are other forms of the name Marisa?
In the etymology graph, Mary, Marissa and Marisela are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Marisa have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 153 thousand people named Marissa in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Marisa” — the 112th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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