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Both of those are good names! A key takeaway for both, however, is that they can easily be confused with a name that's far more common / popular:

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Isabel --> Isabella (or even Isabelle)
Larissa --> Marissa

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I'm not sure where you're posting from, but Isabella is the #7 name for baby girls in the U.S. right now, with a whopping 11,201 births in 2021. (Isabelle is #117 with 2,368 births, and Isabel is #145 with 1,902 births.) Meanwhile, neither Larissa nor Marissa are currently charting, but Marissa's peak was in 1994 at #53 with 6,245 births, whereas Larissa's was... also in 1994, at #363 with 715 births (much less popular).

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I bring up popularity stats like this to illustrate the likelihood of name confusion in the future. Though Marissa is a tad bit dated (it's becoming a "Mom name"), at its peak it still didn't eclipse Isabella, therefore a Larissa mistakenly being called Marissa is less likely to happen than an Isabel having her name misspelled as Isabelle, or inaccurately being called Isabella.

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This tips my vote over to Larissa.

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As for what the names remind me of, I don't have clear images in my head. Larissa does feel a tad more Eastern European, whereas Isabel is decidedly Western.

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www.behindthename.com/pnl/69381
www.behindthename.com/pnl/69381/117507
www.behindthename.com/pnl/69381/109399
www.behindthename.com/pnl/69381/132018