Meaning and history
Larissa is a variant of Larisa that has been used as an English given name mainly since the 20th century, borrowed from Russian. In 1991, the name was also given to one of Neptune’s moons in honor of the mythological character.
Larissa rose from #858 to #848 for girls between 2011 and 2012. Its highest annual birth count came in 1994, with 715 births.