Carrisa
Carrisa was last recorded in 2014, when 6 babies were given it; 547 Americans have been recorded with it between 1970 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 Carrisa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Carrisa?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,945, in 2014; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
41 babies in 1992, the peak
Carrisa peaked in 1992, when 41 girls were given it, #2,872 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 6 | #14,945 | 3.4 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,119 | 3.7 |
| 2007 | 6 | #15,858 | 3.1 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,090 | 4.9 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,368 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,445 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,869 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,583 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,110 | 9.1 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,213 | 8.6 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 21 | #4,756 | 12.0 |
| 1995 | 20 | #4,872 | 11.4 |
| 1994 | 25 | #4,134 | 14.0 |
| 1993 | 21 | #4,690 | 11.6 |
| 1992 | 41 | #2,872 | 22.2 |
| 1991 | 24 | #4,215 | 12.8 |
| 1990 | 23 | #4,255 | 12.1 |
| 1989 | 33 | #3,175 | 17.9 |
| 1988 | 20 | #4,334 | 11.2 |
| 1987 | 20 | #4,142 | 11.5 |
| 1986 | 22 | #3,771 | 12.8 |
| 1985 | 20 | #4,000 | 11.6 |
| 1984 | 21 | #3,752 | 12.5 |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,311 | 10.2 |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,741 | 8.9 |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,608 | 7.2 |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,007 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 14 | #4,873 | 8.7 |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,723 | 4.6 |
| 1977 | 22 | #3,385 | 14.3 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,653 | 8.9 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,258 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,327 | 5.5 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,545 | 4.1 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,166 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Carrisa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Carrisa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Carrisa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Carrisa, and how old are they?
An estimated 531 Americans named Carrisa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 31 and 43. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 563 people named Carrisa (563 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 535 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Carrisa?
Carrisa is a less common spelling of Carissa: SSA has recorded 547 Carrisa and 28,459 Carissa since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 37,588 babies since 1880, Carrisa is the sixth most given (1.5% of them). In 2025 none of their 46 babies recorded by SSA was a Carrisa (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Carrisa
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 Carrisa and names like it
- Compare Carrisa and CarissaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sCarrisa peaked in 1992.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Carrisa since 1910.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Carrisa.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Carrisa alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.