Carrissa — girls' name

What the Data Says About Carrissa

The Social Security Administration has registered 965 babies named Carrissa between 1967 and 2018, spanning 52 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Carrissa currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2018. The name reached its historical peak in 1991, when 61 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Carrissa performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 393 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Carrissa shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 94 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Carrissa in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Carrissa 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 965 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.