Carlisa — girls' name

What the Data Says About Carlisa

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,001 babies named Carlisa between 1957 and 2014, spanning 58 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Carlisa currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2014. The name reached its historical peak in 1990, when 39 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Carlisa performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 255 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Carlisa shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Ohio, which accounts for 23 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Carlisa in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Carlisa 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 1,001 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.