Charissa
#10,917 for girls in 2025, 8 births
- Peak · girls
- 1980 · 212 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,140since 1949
Charissa over time
Rank among girls' names. Charissa has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,917 | 8 |
| 2024 | #8,946 | 11 |
| 2023 | #11,169 | 8 |
| 2022 | #7,281 | 15 |
| 2021 | #8,464 | 12 |
| 2020 | #12,142 | 7 |
| 2019 | #8,597 | 12 |
| 2018 | #6,010 | 20 |
| 2017 | #5,338 | 24 |
| 2016 | #5,284 | 25 |
| 2015 | #4,981 | 27 |
| 2014 | #4,544 | 31 |
| 2013 | #6,462 | 19 |
| 2012 | #5,253 | 26 |
| 2011 | #4,807 | 29 |
| 2010 | #5,602 | 24 |
| 2009 | #5,378 | 26 |
| 2008 | #5,013 | 29 |
| 2007 | #3,848 | 41 |
| 2006 | #3,669 | 42 |
| 2005 | #3,942 | 36 |
| 2004 | #3,224 | 47 |
| 2003 | #3,869 | 35 |
| 2002 | #3,334 | 41 |
| 2001 | #3,198 | 43 |
| 2000 | #2,426 | 63 |
| 1999 | #2,343 | 63 |
| 1998 | #2,307 | 61 |
| 1997 | #2,045 | 69 |
| 1996 | #2,151 | 63 |
| 1995 | #1,761 | 82 |
| 1994 | #1,608 | 94 |
| 1993 | #1,374 | 119 |
| 1992 | #1,370 | 121 |
| 1991 | #1,395 | 115 |
| 1990 | #1,154 | 149 |
| 1989 | #1,085 | 155 |
| 1988 | #1,132 | 135 |
| 1987 | #1,050 | 147 |
| 1986 | #929 | 171 |
| 1985 | #1,002 | 152 |
| 1984 | #867 | 175 |
| 1983 | #866 | 176 |
| 1982 | #925 | 163 |
| 1981 | #895 | 167 |
| 1980 | #778 | 212 |
| 1979 | #794 | 199 |
| 1978 | #995 | 137 |
| 1977 | #1,004 | 134 |
| 1976 | #1,036 | 119 |
| 1975 | #917 | 141 |
| 1974 | #1,076 | 109 |
| 1973 | #934 | 130 |
| 1972 | #1,022 | 114 |
| 1971 | #1,098 | 109 |
| 1970 | #1,224 | 91 |
| 1969 | #1,546 | 59 |
| 1968 | #1,940 | 38 |
| 1967 | #1,732 | 44 |
| 1966 | #1,916 | 36 |
| 1965 | #1,768 | 41 |
| 1964 | #2,306 | 28 |
| 1963 | #2,252 | 28 |
| 1962 | #1,889 | 37 |
| 1961 | #2,474 | 24 |
| 1960 | #2,369 | 25 |
| 1959 | #2,191 | 27 |
| 1958 | #1,939 | 32 |
| 1957 | #2,926 | 16 |
| 1956 | #2,530 | 20 |
| 1955 | #1,940 | 30 |
| 1954 | #2,076 | 26 |
| 1953 | #2,595 | 17 |
| 1952 | #3,552 | 10 |
| 1951 | #3,284 | 11 |
| 1950 | #3,052 | 12 |
| 1949 | #4,673 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Charissa! It came in at #4,673, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1949, when fewer than 7 girls a year got the name.
Where Charissa is popular in 1971
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Kentucky#518 · 1 in 5,195
- Ohio#919 · 1 in 13,945
- Michigan#962 · 1 in 13,801
- California#1,014 · 1 in 11,415
- Illinois#1,072 · 1 in 13,780
Best ever in a state: #279 in Kansas, 1979.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Kentucky | #518 | 5 | 1 in 5,195 |
| Ohio | #919 | 6 | 1 in 13,945 |
| Michigan | #962 | 5 | 1 in 13,801 |
| California | #1,014 | 13 | 1 in 11,415 |
| Illinois | #1,072 | 6 | 1 in 13,780 |
| Texas | #1,298 | 6 | 1 in 17,309 |
| New York | #1,552 | 5 | 1 in 25,043 |
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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 Charissa
- 1,971 spots since 2024 (#8,946 → #10,917)
- 1,225 spots since 2020 (#12,142 → #10,917)
- 5,936 spots since 2015 (#4,981 → #10,917)
- Biggest jump: 201 spots in 1979 (#995 → #794)
- Biggest drop: 142 spots in 1974 (#934 → #1,076)
- Debuted 1949
- Peaked 1980 at #778 (212 births)
- Births halved by 1994, 14 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 10 yrs · run 1978–1984
- Highest: 1 in 7,832 girls born in 1980 were named Charissa (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 200,908 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 32.2% of all girls named Charissa (1,653) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1940s | 6 | #4,673 (1949) | #4,673 |
| 1950s | 201 | #1,939 (1958) | #2,609 |
| 1960s | 360 | #1,546 (1969) | #2,019 |
| 1970s | 1,283 | #794 (1979) | #1,010 |
| 1980s | 1,653 | #778 (1980) | #953 |
| 1990s | 936 | #1,154 (1990) | #1,751 |
| 2000s | 403 | #2,426 (2000) | #3,790 |
| 2010s | 237 | #4,544 (2014) | #5,688 |
| 2020s | 61 | #7,281 (2022) | #9,820 |
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.
Charissa in 1971
Top girls' names in 1971
More about 1971
girls
1,663,823 girls got a published name in 1971; 1 in 15,264 of them was named Charissa, which outranked 88.6% of the 9,645 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,093Elva110
- #1,093Fannie110
- #1,093Sherie110
- #1,098Charissa109
- #1,098Celina109
- #1,098Esperanza109
- #1,098Harriet109
- #1,103Adele108
- #1,103Ali108
- #1,103Brook108
Tied with 4 names at #1,098; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.