Cerissa — girls' name

What the Data Says About Cerissa

The Social Security Administration has registered 461 babies named Cerissa between 1975 and 2010, spanning 36 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Cerissa currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2010. The name reached its historical peak in 1980, when 56 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Cerissa performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 248 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Cerissa shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 19 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Louisiana and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Cerissa in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Cerissa 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 461 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.