Maresa
Feminine
Maresa is an American girl's name close to Marisa, perhaps a blend of Mary and Teresa. It also echoes Maresha, a city of ancient Judah built over a honeycomb of caves.
How old is the name Maresa?
Maresa first appears in US birth records in 1957 — 68 years ago. The typical Maresa alive today was born around 1989, making them about 36 years old. About 600 people named Maresa are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Maresa most popular?
Maresa peaked in 1968, reaching #4000 nationally. See the whole 1968 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Maresa
Maresha, a city in the hills of Judah named in the Bible, sits over thousands of caves cut into the soft chalk: rooms with hundreds of niches for keeping doves, cisterns, and presses where olive oil was made; archaeologists and schoolchildren still dig there. Maresa, the American name, came from Marisa and the Mar- names. But it shares its sound with a very old place.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Maresa may be Marisa respelled or a blend of Mary and Teresa, and nothing records which.
Pronouncing Maresa
muh-REE-suh
Three syllables with the stress on the second; some say muh-RESS-uh.
Nicknames for Maresa
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1957
- Most girls named
- 199523 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #4000reached in 1968
- Change vs 2013
- −28.6%5 in 2017, from 7
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Maresas among us
people named Maresa are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Maresa sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Close to familiar names.
- Rare, so a Maresa is unlikely to share her name.
- Comes with ready short forms.
- People will write Marisa or Maressa.
- The pronunciation varies.
- It has no documented meaning of its own.
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Frequently asked
- How many Maresas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Maresa are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Maresa in 2025?
- Maresa is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Maresa will almost certainly be the only one in school.
More M names
The most-given names starting with M, all years combined.
Mary#125 · Margaret#112 · Michelle#465 · Melissa#419 · Maria#87 · Martha#712 · Marie#617 · Mildred#1962
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