Charissa

Where Charissa comes from

The dictionaries list Charissa as a given name — a female given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1949
    First appearance
    #4,673 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1980
    Peak, #778
    212 babies named Charissa — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1982
    Charissa Thompson born
    American sportscaster
  4. 1989
    Charissa Tansomboon born
    figure skater
  5. 1994
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,608.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Charissa Thompson · American sportscaster, born 1982
  • Charissa Tansomboon · figure skater, born 1989
  • Charissa Panuve · Tongan swimmer, born 1994

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.