Carissa
#3,342 for girls in 2025, 46 births · Last seen for boys in 1989 at #6,229
Given to girls >99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1992 · 1,155 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 28,447since 1949
Carissa over time
Rank among girls' names. Carissa has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,342 | 46 | — | |
| 2024 | #3,459 | 45 | — | |
| 2023 | #2,936 | 57 | — | |
| 2022 | #3,220 | 50 | — | |
| 2021 | #2,484 | 71 | — | |
| 2020 | #2,050 | 90 | — | |
| 2019 | #2,193 | 84 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,997 | 98 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,643 | 131 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,667 | 128 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,411 | 164 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,382 | 167 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,138 | 211 | — | |
| 2012 | #958 | 265 | — | |
| 2011 | #914 | 285 | — | |
| 2010 | #827 | 324 | — | |
| 2009 | #854 | 326 | — | |
| 2008 | #730 | 408 | — | |
| 2007 | #625 | 477 | — | |
| 2006 | #583 | 502 | — | |
| 2005 | #578 | 497 | — | |
| 2004 | #471 | 625 | — | |
| 2003 | #461 | 648 | — | |
| 2002 | #420 | 692 | — | |
| 2001 | #410 | 708 | — | |
| 2000 | #413 | 685 | — | |
| 1999 | #409 | 681 | — | |
| 1998 | #400 | 686 | — | |
| 1997 | #395 | 659 | — | |
| 1996 | #373 | 724 | — | |
| 1995 | #329 | 818 | — | |
| 1994 | #304 | 904 | — | |
| 1993 | #285 | 977 | — | |
| 1992 | #240 | 1,155 | — | |
| 1991 | #250 | 1,110 | — | |
| 1990 | #257 | 1,106 | — | |
| 1989 | #280 | 962 | #6,229 | 7 |
| 1988 | #295 | 837 | — | |
| 1987 | #334 | 734 | — | |
| 1986 | #311 | 766 | — | |
| 1985 | #326 | 730 | #6,523 | 5 |
| 1984 | #316 | 752 | — | |
| 1983 | #313 | 738 | — | |
| 1982 | #336 | 713 | — | |
| 1981 | #349 | 670 | — | |
| 1980 | #332 | 725 | — | |
| 1979 | #344 | 686 | — | |
| 1978 | #381 | 553 | — | |
| 1977 | #393 | 532 | — | |
| 1976 | #425 | 475 | — | |
| 1975 | #555 | 308 | — | |
| 1974 | #584 | 270 | — | |
| 1973 | #670 | 222 | — | |
| 1972 | #683 | 216 | — | |
| 1971 | #729 | 207 | — | |
| 1970 | #827 | 166 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,036 | 111 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,279 | 74 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,299 | 70 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,368 | 64 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,323 | 68 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,975 | 36 | — | |
| 1963 | #2,424 | 25 | — | |
| 1962 | #2,814 | 19 | — | |
| 1961 | #2,673 | 21 | — | |
| 1960 | #2,989 | 17 | — | |
| 1959 | #4,625 | 8 | — | |
| 1958 | #6,103 | 5 | — | |
| 1957 | #3,930 | 10 | — | |
| 1956 | #3,910 | 10 | — | |
| 1955 | #4,069 | 9 | — | |
| 1954 | #3,019 | 14 | — | |
| 1953 | #4,226 | 8 | — | |
| 1952 | #4,483 | 7 | — | |
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| 1949 | #5,244 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Carissa! It came in at #5,244, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1949–1951, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Carissa
- 117 spots since 2024 (#3,459 → #3,342)
- 1,292 spots since 2020 (#2,050 → #3,342)
- 1,931 spots since 2015 (#1,411 → #3,342)
- Biggest jump: 209 spots in 1970 (#1,036 → #827)
- Biggest drop: 180 spots in 2013 (#958 → #1,138)
- Debuted 1949
- Peaked 1992 at #240 (1,155 births)
- Births halved by 2005, 13 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 43 yrs · run 1970–2012
- Highest: 1 in 1,596 girls born in 1992 were named Carissa (0.06%)
- Latest: 1 in 34,941 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 31.0% of all girls named Carissa (8,820) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 5 | #5,244 (1949) | #5,244 |
| 1950s | 71 | #3,019 (1954) | #4,296 |
| 1960s | 505 | #1,036 (1969) | #1,918 |
| 1970s | 3,635 | #344 (1979) | #559 |
| 1980s | 7,627 | #280 (1989) | #319 |
| 1990s | 8,820 | #240 (1992) | #324 |
| 2000s | 5,568 | #410 (2001) | #555 |
| 2010s | 1,857 | #827 (2010) | #1,413 |
| 2020s | 359 | #2,050 (2020) | #2,915 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Carissa in 1985
Top girls' names in 1985
Top boys' names in 1985
More about 1985
girls
1,720,828 girls got a published name in 1985; 1 in 2,357 of them was named Carissa, which outranked 97.4% of the 12,505 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,848,210 boys got a published name in 1985; 1 in 369,642 of them was named Carissa, which outranked 14.0% of the 7,586 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,063 names at #6,523; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.