Merissa
Recorded 1962–2019 · United States
Merissa was most popular in 1995, when 172 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,833 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 3,412 people named Merissa.
Merissa over time
How old is the name Merissa?
Merissa first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1962, which makes it about 63 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 53 of the 64 years since. It was last recorded in 2019.
How many people are named Merissa?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 3,412 American births named Merissa between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 3,340 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Merissa in 2025?
Merissa was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Merissa getting more or less popular?
Merissa is out of use. It averaged 13 births a year a decade ago and has not been recorded in the last five years.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Merissa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Merissa is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 3,412 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 100% girls and 0% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Merissa?
Roughly 3,340 Americans named Merissa are alive today — 98% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 33 years old, and half are between 27 and 39. That is a narrow band: Merissa arrived and faded within about a decade rather than staying in steady use.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Merissa is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org