Carlissa
Carlissa was last recorded in 2016, when 5 babies were given it; 658 Americans have been recorded with it between 1959 and 2016 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Carlissa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Carlissa?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,752, in 2016; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
27 babies in 1989, the peak
Carlissa peaked in 1989, when 27 girls were given it, #3,685 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 5 | #16,752 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,162 | 4.5 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,447 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,379 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,738 | 3.9 |
| 2009 | 7 | #13,974 | 3.8 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,778 | 4.8 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,117 | 6.8 |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,412 | 10.5 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,002 | 6.5 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 17 | #6,840 | 9.3 |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,803 | 5.5 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,755 | 8.9 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,369 | 9.4 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,652 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,470 | 10.7 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,402 | 10.8 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,250 | 10.9 |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,822 | 9.1 |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,365 | 13.1 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,225 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,709 | 8.8 |
| 1992 | 26 | #3,979 | 14.1 |
| 1991 | 23 | #4,354 | 12.3 |
| 1990 | 22 | #4,393 | 11.6 |
| 1989 | 27 | #3,685 | 14.6 |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,669 | 10.1 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,337 | 8.1 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,214 | 8.2 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,035 | 5.2 |
| 1984 | 11 | #5,949 | 6.5 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,500 | 7.2 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,582 | 7.1 |
| 1981 | 11 | #5,932 | 6.6 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,366 | 6.0 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,245 | 6.2 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,455 | 5.9 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,653 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,382 | 4.8 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,577 | 6.9 |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,754 | 8.2 |
| 1973 | 11 | #4,909 | 7.5 |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,818 | 7.2 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,068 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,095 | 5.7 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,607 | 3.0 |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,693 | 4.3 |
| 1967 | 5 | #6,917 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 13 | #3,577 | 7.7 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,345 | 4.0 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,054 | 4.2 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,355 | 3.6 |
| 1960 | 6 | #5,778 | 3.0 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,091 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Carlissa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Carlissa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 54 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Carlissa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Carlissa, and how old are they?
An estimated 634 Americans named Carlissa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 26 and 45. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 571 people named Carlissa (571 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 641 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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, Carlissa is the second most given (31% 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 Carlissa
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 Carlissa and names like it
- Compare Carlissa and CarlisaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sCarlissa peaked in 1989.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Carlissa since 1910.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Carlissa.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Carlissa alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.