Marissa is from the Latin maris (of the sea) — a 20th-century American elaboration of Marisa, ultimately from Mary. **A top-100 US baby name from 1986 to 2003**. **Marissa Mayer (born 1975)** — **American technology executive; first female engineer and 20th employee at Google (1999); rose to Vice President of Search Products at 33; left in July 2012 to become CEO of Yahoo at 37**, making her the youngest Fortune 500 CEO at the time. **At her appointment she was six months pregnant with her first son**; her two weeks of maternity leave became a national debate about American maternity policy. **Stanford BS in symbolic systems and MS in computer science**. **Founded Lumi Labs in 2018 (now Sunshine Contacts)**. **Marissa Tomei (born 1964)** — American actress; *My Cousin Vinny* Oscar (1992).
Subject of countless tech industry profiles.
Marissa reduces to two — the number of of the sea.