Comments on: Name of the Day: Marisa http://appellationmountain.net/2008/08/31/name-of-the-day-marisa/ Where Every Name Has a Story Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:32:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: appellationmountain http://appellationmountain.net/2008/08/31/name-of-the-day-marisa/#comment-17759 Sat, 29 Jan 2011 13:45:52 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=540#comment-17759 That is bizarre! I’ve had that happen with good friends, but usually we have so much in common it is no shock that we like the same names.

]]> By: photoquilty http://appellationmountain.net/2008/08/31/name-of-the-day-marisa/#comment-17736 Fri, 28 Jan 2011 15:43:50 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=540#comment-17736 As it turns out, Abby, Marisa from grade school grew up and had a son named…Ethan. To think we have anything in common is odd.

]]> By: appellationmountain http://appellationmountain.net/2008/08/31/name-of-the-day-marisa/#comment-1520 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:08:15 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=540#comment-1520 Another, that’s a great (horrible) story! Wonder where that wicked little Marisa is these days?

I think I’d group Marisa/Marissa with Jessica – it’s enduring, but it’s not the best name to consider at this moment. But that’s not a position I can support – other names from the same era, like Melissa and Amanda, just sound more classic to my ear.

Laney, I agree with you, though – far better Marissa than yet another Madison!

For me, I like Marisa best as a contracted form of Maria Louisa. If I were inclined to use it, I’d probably put Maria Louisa on her birth certificate and use it as a nickname.

]]> By: Another http://appellationmountain.net/2008/08/31/name-of-the-day-marisa/#comment-1513 Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:42:46 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=540#comment-1513 My parents gave me Marissa as a middle name. I have always hated it. It might be because Marisa was the girl in elementary school that blackmailed me for saying a dirty word – she would take my lunch dessert every day for two years. She was a dirty little byatch and I never liked her despite the blackmail. So I have forever hated my middle name. When I got married I dropped it. I’m 30, so that’s when Marissa was in the middle of its popular streak, I guess. Hwever, I was named for a great-uncle who had died – and my parents were going to name me Marissa as a first name, but when I was born three weeks early, they forgot, and used my original middle name as my first and Marissa as my middle. Anyway…I’ve babbled enough.

]]> By: !!!DirtyHippy!!! http://appellationmountain.net/2008/08/31/name-of-the-day-marisa/#comment-1512 Sun, 31 Aug 2008 17:59:28 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=540#comment-1512 Marissa does seem a bit dated to me . . . I can think of a handful I know who are either in their teens or twenties. Maybe in another generation or two I’ll be able to hear this one fresh again.

]]> By: Lola http://appellationmountain.net/2008/08/31/name-of-the-day-marisa/#comment-1510 Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:57:20 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=540#comment-1510 funny, I like Marisa (ma-REES-ah) but dislike Marissa (ma-RISS-ah). But that may be because I’m surrounded by Spanish speaking pwople these days. Marisa sounds rich & lovely and overall, warm. I like her very much, indeed. She’s not something I’d use for me (sounds funny with my Scots surname) but I can admore it on Laura’s (Ho! ASnother Laura, Hi there! :D ) and other people’s girls. And admire, I do. :)

]]> By: Laney McDonald http://appellationmountain.net/2008/08/31/name-of-the-day-marisa/#comment-1509 Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:24:00 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=540#comment-1509 I love Marissa! I don’t hear it very much anymore, and it’s a way better name than Madison or Emily; It’s alot classier and prettier. Marissa is on my favorites list, but my boyfriend doesn’t really care for it, so I can’t use it.

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