Calissa — #8033 US girls' name
897 babies named Calissa in U.S. Social Security records since 1962, with the highest year being 2001. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 55% of names given to girls today.
41% of everyone ever named Calissa was born in this single decade.
49 babies were named Calissa in 2001 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Calissa
The Social Security Administration has registered 897 babies named Calissa between 1962 and 2024, spanning 63 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Calissa currently holds the #8033 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2001, when 49 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Calissa performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 371 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Calissa shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 83 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Calissa in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Calissa in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 897 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Calissa at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Calissa popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1962
- Peak year (2001)
- 49
- Annual births at peak — across 63 years of records
Currently ranks #8033 among girls.
897 total births across 63 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2001 with 49 births in a single year.
Calissa by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 371 births that decade — 41% of Calissa's all-time total
Calissa decade highlights
- Peak decade 371 births
- Runner-up 250 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Calissa's strongest decade
371 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 41% of all-time use.
Calissa by state
Where Calissa concentrates geographically — total births since 1962
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 83 | 9.3% |
| #2 | Texas | | 16 | 1.8% |
| #3 | Georgia | | 5 | 0.6% |
83 of 897 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 3 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 9.3% of nationwide
- Texas 1.8% of nationwide
- Georgia 0.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 3 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 9.3% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1962–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.