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.
Where Carissa is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#1,003 · 1 in 6,315
- Indiana#1,042 · 1 in 6,020
- Tennessee#1,067 · 1 in 6,120
- Michigan#1,303 · 1 in 8,253
- Pennsylvania#1,416 · 1 in 10,228
Best ever in a state: #70 in Wyoming, 1992.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | #1,003 | 31 | 1 in 6,315 |
| Indiana | #1,042 | 5 | 1 in 6,020 |
| Tennessee | #1,067 | 5 | 1 in 6,120 |
| Michigan | #1,303 | 5 | 1 in 8,253 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,416 | 5 | 1 in 10,228 |
| New York | #1,460 | 9 | 1 in 9,777 |
| Ohio | #1,460 | 5 | 1 in 10,355 |
| Florida | #1,639 | 7 | 1 in 12,280 |
| Texas | #1,751 | 12 | 1 in 13,323 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 13,179 of them was named Carissa, which outranked 91.1% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,636Kari132
- #1,636Kenleigh132
- #1,636Moira132
- #1,643Carissa131
- #1,643Avalon131
- #1,643Beatriz131
- #1,643Elowen131
- #1,655Carrie130
- #1,655Dariana130
- #1,655Ema130
Tied with 11 names at #1,643; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.