Caressa — girls' name

What the Data Says About Caressa

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,218 babies named Caressa between 1956 and 2014, spanning 59 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Caressa currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2014. The name reached its historical peak in 1987, when 69 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Caressa performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 465 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Caressa shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 103 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Caressa in 13 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Caressa 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 1,218 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.