Given name & surname
Raissa
“a great thinker”
Raissa is used as a given name and a surname. One French interpretation is “a great thinker.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One French interpretation is “a great thinker.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is French.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1959. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Raissa through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 545
- 0 boys · 545 girls
- Most popular year
- 1989
- 20 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −30%
- Easing
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 9 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,160 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.
Raissa’s family of names
Raissa has a related form in Raisa. Raissa has a related form in Raysa. Raissa has a related form in Rayssa.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 8
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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 Raissa
- Raissa FeudjioCameroonian footballerborn 1995
- Raissa BergRussian geneticist and evolutive biologist1913–2006
- Raissa SantanaBrazilian model, Miss Brasil 2016born 1995
- Raïssa DapinaFrench-Senegalese handball playerborn 1995
- Raïssa NasserCameroonian volleyball playerborn 1994
- Raissa CalzaUkrainian dancer and archaeologist (1894–1979)
- Raissa AdlerRussian-born feminist from Austria (1872-1962)
- Raissa RuusEstonian athletics competitor and coach (1942–1986)
- Raíssa Rocha MachadoBrazilian athletics competitorborn 1996
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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