Marissa
How many real pets are named Marissa, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Marissa as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 7 pets are named Marissa: 4 dogs, 3 cats. Where sex was recorded, 100% are female and 0% male. It ranks #8,169 among dog names and #3,475 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Marissa
Dogs
- Maltipoo: 1
- Pit Bull: 1
- Terrier: 1
- German Shepherd: 1
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Marissa
- New York City: 3licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 2shelter
- Austin shelter: 2shelter
Marissa as a human name
This is the meaning of Marissa as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A female given name from Spanish, a contraction of Maria Lisa or Maria Luisa, though sometimes regarded as a re-interpretation of the name Melissa as a homophone in another European language.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Marissa
Dog names about as popular as Marissa
Marissa FAQ
How many pets are named Marissa?
In the public pet records we track, 7 pets are named Marissa: 4 dogs, 3 cats. Where sex was recorded, 100% are female and 0% male. It ranks #8,169 among dog names and #3,475 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Marissa?
Among dogs named Marissa in these records, the most common breed is Maltipoo.
Counts come from public open data: NYC Dog Licensing Dataset (NYC Open Data); Animal Shelter Intake and Outcome, County of Sonoma; Austin Animal Center Outcomes (public domain). License records count registered pets; shelter records count animals that passed through a shelter (some names are given by staff). Pets that appear in several years of one dataset are counted once. Names are counted as written, so spelling variants are separate.