Marisa is a girl's name of Italian origin meaning “of the sea.” In 2024 it was given to 38 girls in the United States.
Marisa at a glance
Gender
Girl name
Origin
Italian
Meaning
“of the sea”
About the name Marisa
Marisa belongs to the Italian tradition. Its meaning — “of the sea” — is the sense carried by its Italian roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Marisa first appears in Social Security records in 1934. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #147 in 1994, and in 2024 38 babies received the name — 48,683 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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