Given name
Maurissa
“a dark-skinned beauty”·“a dark-skinned man; Moorish”
Maurissa is a feminine form of Maurice. One Latin interpretation is “a dark-skinned man; Moorish.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
In Latin use, Maurissa carries the interpretation “a dark-skinned beauty.” Maurissa is a feminine form of Maurice. One Latin interpretation is “a dark-skinned man; Moorish.”
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Latin.
How it developed
Maurissa is used as a feminine counterpart of Maurice.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1968. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Maurissa through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 639
- 0 boys · 639 girls
- Most popular year
- 1993
- 50 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2017. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 50 in 1993. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 567 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Maurissa’s family of names
Maurissa is a feminine form of Maurice. Maurissa has a related form in Maurita. Maurissa has a related form in Maurisa.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 11
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Mauritavariant
- Maurisavariant
- Maurrissalikely variant
- Maurissevariant
- Maurisevariant
- Maurizavariant
- Mauriziavariant
- Maurytavariant
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Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Maurissa
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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