Merisa
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a form of millet beer popular in South Sudan
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɝɪsə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Merisa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bosnia & Herzegovina than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 516K(measured from records)
- BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 1.9K
- SISlovenia1 in 16K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Bosnia & Herzegovina (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 158 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Bosnia & Herzegovina, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a form of millet beer popular in South Sudan
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Merisa 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #789 | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Merisa | 10 |
| US United States | — | 645 | 1 in 516K | 645 | Merisa | 158 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 248K | — | Merisa | 16 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 243K | — | Merisa | 5 |
| KE Kenya | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 223K | — | Merisa | 8 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 134 | 1 in 16K | 144 | — | 3 |
| AL Albania | — | 92 | 1 in 33K | 92 | — | — |
| XK Kosovo | — | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 58K | 296 | — | 1 |
| GY Guyana | — | 17 | 1 in 44K | 17 | Merisa | 1 |
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; ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Merisa is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Alus, ko Austrumāfrikā gatavo no durras
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Merisa Cindy Sahputrib. 1996IDIndonesian badminton player
- Merisa Dautovićb. 1999SISlovene basketball player
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 41 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 645 | #17,205 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 296 | #1,663 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 144 | #1,222 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 134 | #622 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2024 | 134 | #618 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2023 | 126 | #626 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2022 | 120 | #628 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2021 | 117 | #623 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2020 | 104 | #651 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2019 | 93 | #688 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 92 | #3,022 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2018 | 83 | #731 |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Merisa mean, and where does it come from?
- a form of millet beer popular in South Sudan Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Merisa?
- A machine transcription gives /mɝɪsə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Merisa a male or female name?
- Merisa 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.
- In which country does Merisa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.0 thousand people named Merisa in Bosnia & Herzegovina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled merisa.
- How common is the name Merisa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 645 people named Merisa in 2020, about 1 in 516 thousand residents.
- How common is Merisa compared with other names?
- In Bosnia & Herzegovina, Merisa is the 789th most common given name of 4,559 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/merisaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Merisa” — the 789th most common given name in Bosnia & Herzegovina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.