Carlisa
Carlisa was last recorded in 2014, when 5 babies were given it; 1,001 Americans have been recorded with it between 1957 and 2014 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Carlisa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Carlisa?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,063, in 2014; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
39 babies in 1990, the peak
Carlisa peaked in 1990, when 39 girls were given it, #2,908 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 5 | #17,063 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,199 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,817 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,816 | 4.2 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,202 | 3.6 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,488 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,032 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 9 | #10,846 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,583 | 4.9 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,616 | 5.6 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 6 | #13,819 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,657 | 7.2 |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,696 | 10.1 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,398 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 24 | #4,399 | 13.8 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,249 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,043 | 10.8 |
| 1994 | 29 | #3,709 | 16.2 |
| 1993 | 26 | #4,001 | 14.4 |
| 1992 | 22 | #4,550 | 11.9 |
| 1991 | 31 | #3,450 | 16.5 |
| 1990 | 39 | #2,908 | 20.5 |
| 1989 | 28 | #3,577 | 15.2 |
| 1988 | 36 | #2,877 | 20.2 |
| 1987 | 24 | #3,633 | 13.8 |
| 1986 | 27 | #3,285 | 15.7 |
| 1985 | 23 | #3,633 | 13.4 |
| 1984 | 18 | #4,181 | 10.7 |
| 1983 | 28 | #2,989 | 16.8 |
| 1982 | 26 | #3,271 | 15.4 |
| 1981 | 20 | #3,876 | 12.0 |
| 1980 | 25 | #3,333 | 15.1 |
| 1979 | 19 | #3,925 | 11.8 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,706 | 9.1 |
| 1977 | 30 | #2,723 | 19.6 |
| 1976 | 27 | #2,802 | 18.4 |
| 1975 | 32 | #2,462 | 21.9 |
| 1974 | 19 | #3,442 | 12.9 |
| 1973 | 28 | #2,574 | 19.2 |
| 1972 | 25 | #2,756 | 16.4 |
| 1971 | 30 | #2,488 | 18.0 |
| 1970 | 17 | #3,600 | 9.7 |
| 1969 | 21 | #2,923 | 12.4 |
| 1968 | 23 | #2,639 | 14.0 |
| 1967 | 20 | #2,790 | 12.1 |
| 1966 | 21 | #2,677 | 12.4 |
| 1965 | 24 | #2,474 | 13.6 |
| 1964 | 12 | #3,896 | 6.3 |
| 1963 | 16 | #3,190 | 8.3 |
| 1962 | 17 | #3,048 | 8.6 |
| 1961 | 6 | #5,920 | 3.0 |
| 1960 | 10 | #4,214 | 4.9 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,361 | 2.5 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,485 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,181 | 2.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Carlisa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Carlisa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 55 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Carlisa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Carlisa, and how old are they?
An estimated 950 Americans named Carlisa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 43 years old and half are between 34 and 53. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 829 people named Carlisa (823 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 964 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 2,119 babies since 1880, Carlisa is the most given (47% of them).
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 Carlisa
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 Carlisa and names like it
- Compare Carlisa and CarlissaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sCarlisa peaked in 1990.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Carlisa since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Carlisa.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Carlisa alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.