Charissa — #9628 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Charissa

The Social Security Administration has registered 5,131 babies named Charissa between 1949 and 2024, spanning 76 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Charissa currently holds the #9628 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1980, when 212 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Charissa performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 1,653 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Charissa shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 490 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Charissa in 28 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Charissa 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 5,131 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.