Marisa (given name)
Marisa is a feminine given name. Like the given name Marissa, the name is derived from the Latin maris, meaning "of the sea."[1] The name is also a Spanish or Italian contracted familiar nickname for Maria Isabel (Mary Elizabeth) or Maria Luisa (Mary Louise, 'Mary-Lou').
In Italy, Marisa was particularly popular in the 1930s: it is among the 20 most popular names for girls born between 1933 and 1939.[2] In 1931 Marisa is at the third place of the most common names for girls born in Rome.[3]
Marisa may refer to:
People with this name
- Marisa Allasio (born 1936), Italian actress
- Marisa Baena (born 1977), Colombian golfer
- Marisa Barros (born 1980), Portuguese long-distance runner
- Marisa Berenson (born 1946), American actress and model
- Marisa Catalina Casey, photographer, graphic designer, educator, and co-author of the book Born in Our Heart
- Marisa Coughlan (born 1973), actress in the USA
- Marisa Ferretti Barth (born 1931), Canadian senator
- Marisa Zenima Graneris, Italian songwriter
- Marisa Joy, an American Idol contestant
- Marisa Letícia, second wife of former President of Brazil Luis Inácio "Lula" da Silva
- Marisa López (born 1964), Argentine field hockey player
- Marisa Mell (1939–1992), Austrian actress
- Marisa Merlini (1923–2008), Italian actress
- Marisa Miller (born 1978), American model
- Marisa Monte, Brazilian popular singer
- Marisa Paredes, also known by the surname "Bartolomé"
- Marisa Pavan (born 1932), Italian actress
- Marisa Ramirez, American actress
- Marisa dos Reis Nunes, popular Portuguese fado singer
- Marisa Robles (born 1937), harpist
- Marisa Siketa, Australian actress
- Marisa Tomei (born 1964), American actress
- Marisa Warrington (born 1973), actress
It means Variant of Mary: Wished-for child.
Fictional characters
- Marisa Coulter, a character from Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy
- Marisa Kirisame (霧雨 魔理沙), a fictional witch in numerous Touhou Project games
- The Countess Marisa of New Kiev, a character from David Weber's "Honor Harrington" series.
- Marissa Cooper from The OC series.
See also
See also: Marissa (name)
Notes
- ↑ "Female 'M' Names". 20,000 Names from Around the World. Retrieved 2013-07-05.
- ↑ Cfr. Alda Rossebastiano-Elena Papa, I nomi di persona in Italia: dizionario storico ed etimologico, Torino, UTET, 2005 (in Italian).
- ↑ Cfr. Enzo Caffarelli, L'onomastica personale nella città di Roma dalla fine del secolo XIX ad oggi. Per una nuova prospettiva di sociografia e cronografia antroponimica, Tubinga, Niemeyer, 1996 (in Italian).