Carissa
Carissa was given to 46 girls in 2025, #3,348 among girls’ names; 28,459 Americans have been recorded with it since 1949 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 27,700 Americans named Carissa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 25 and 42.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Carissa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Carissa mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Carissa is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Carissa?
#3,348 among girls’ names, 2025
Carissa fell from #1,412 in 2015 to #3,348 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 91.9 to 28.6 per million.
1,155 babies in 1992, the peak
Carissa peaked in 1992, when 1,155 girls were given it, #240 among girls’ names. The 46 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 46 | #3,348 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 45 | #3,468 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 57 | #2,943 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 50 | #3,227 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 71 | #2,490 | 0.04 |
| 2020 | 90 | #2,053 | 0.06 |
| 2019 | 84 | #2,202 | 0.05 |
| 2018 | 98 | #1,998 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 131 | #1,645 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 128 | #1,673 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (75)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 164 | #1,412 | 0.09 |
| 2014 | 167 | #1,383 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 211 | #1,138 | 0.12 |
| 2012 | 265 | #960 | 0.15 |
| 2011 | 285 | #914 | 0.16 |
| 2010 | 324 | #827 | 0.18 |
| 2009 | 326 | #854 | 0.18 |
| 2008 | 408 | #730 | 0.22 |
| 2007 | 477 | #625 | 0.25 |
| 2006 | 502 | #584 | 0.26 |
| 2005 | 497 | #578 | 0.27 |
| 2004 | 625 | #472 | 0.34 |
| 2003 | 648 | #461 | 0.35 |
| 2002 | 692 | #420 | 0.39 |
| 2001 | 708 | #410 | 0.39 |
| 2000 | 685 | #413 | 0.38 |
| 1999 | 681 | #409 | 0.38 |
| 1998 | 686 | #400 | 0.39 |
| 1997 | 659 | #395 | 0.38 |
| 1996 | 724 | #373 | 0.41 |
| 1995 | 818 | #329 | 0.47 |
| 1994 | 904 | #304 | 0.51 |
| 1993 | 977 | #285 | 0.54 |
| 1992 | 1,155 | #240 | 0.63 |
| 1991 | 1,110 | #250 | 0.59 |
| 1990 | 1,106 | #257 | 0.58 |
| 1989 | 962 | #280 | 0.52 |
| 1988 | 837 | #295 | 0.47 |
| 1987 | 734 | #334 | 0.42 |
| 1986 | 766 | #311 | 0.45 |
| 1985 | 730 | #326 | 0.42 |
| 1984 | 752 | #316 | 0.45 |
| 1983 | 738 | #313 | 0.44 |
| 1982 | 713 | #336 | 0.42 |
| 1981 | 670 | #349 | 0.40 |
| 1980 | 725 | #332 | 0.44 |
| 1979 | 686 | #344 | 0.43 |
| 1978 | 553 | #381 | 0.36 |
| 1977 | 532 | #393 | 0.35 |
| 1976 | 475 | #425 | 0.32 |
| 1975 | 308 | #555 | 0.21 |
| 1974 | 270 | #584 | 0.18 |
| 1973 | 222 | #670 | 0.15 |
| 1972 | 216 | #683 | 0.14 |
| 1971 | 207 | #729 | 0.12 |
| 1970 | 166 | #827 | 0.09 |
| 1969 | 111 | #1,039 | 0.07 |
| 1968 | 74 | #1,280 | 0.05 |
| 1967 | 70 | #1,300 | 0.04 |
| 1966 | 64 | #1,368 | 0.04 |
| 1965 | 68 | #1,325 | 0.04 |
| 1964 | 36 | #1,978 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 25 | #2,429 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 19 | #2,826 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 21 | #2,680 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 17 | #2,997 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,671 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,204 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 10 | #3,962 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 10 | #3,939 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,109 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 14 | #3,038 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,278 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,536 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,326 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Carissa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Carissa has been given almost only to girls: 12 boys in 75 years of records.
Girls and boys named Carissa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Carissa, and how old are they?
27,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 28,459 Americans ever recorded as Carissa. The median Carissa alive today is 34 years old; half are between 25 and 42.
The 2020 Census counted 25,327 people named Carissa (25,299 women and girls, 28 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 27,545 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 162 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 4,470 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 13,300 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 8,370 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,330 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Carissa born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 8 | #2,309 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,731 | 0.9× |
Where Carissa is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Carissa is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1949 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Carissa with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 57,997 babies since 1880, Carissa is the most given (49% of them). In 2025 it was given to 46 of their 104 babies (44%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Carissa
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Carissa and names like it
- Compare Carissa and KarissaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sCarissa peaked in 1992.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Carissa since 1910.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Carissa.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Carissa alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.