Carissa — #3462 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Carissa

The Social Security Administration has registered 28,400 babies named Carissa between 1949 and 2024, spanning 76 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Carissa currently holds the #3462 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1992, when 1,156 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Carissa performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 8,820 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Carissa shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 4,056 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Carissa in 49 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Carissa 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 28,400 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.