Charissa
Charissa was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,141 among girls’ names; 5,140 Americans have been recorded with it since 1949 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,900 Americans named Charissa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 42 years old and half are between 33 and 50.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Charissa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Charissa mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Charissa is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Charissa?
#11,141 among girls’ names, 2025
Charissa fell from #5,013 in 2015 to #11,141 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 15.1 to 5.0 per million.
212 babies in 1980, the peak
Charissa peaked in 1980, when 212 girls were given it, #779 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,141 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,054 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,391 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,345 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,582 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,407 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,694 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,064 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,399 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,314 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (77)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 27 | #5,013 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 31 | #4,565 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,519 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 26 | #5,284 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 29 | #4,830 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 24 | #5,642 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 26 | #5,421 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,034 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 41 | #3,867 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 42 | #3,683 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 36 | #3,963 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 47 | #3,224 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 35 | #3,889 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 41 | #3,344 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 43 | #3,202 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 63 | #2,428 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 63 | #2,348 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 61 | #2,311 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 69 | #2,046 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 63 | #2,155 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 82 | #1,761 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 94 | #1,607 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 119 | #1,373 | 0.07 |
| 1992 | 121 | #1,367 | 0.07 |
| 1991 | 115 | #1,394 | 0.06 |
| 1990 | 149 | #1,152 | 0.08 |
| 1989 | 155 | #1,082 | 0.08 |
| 1988 | 135 | #1,131 | 0.08 |
| 1987 | 147 | #1,050 | 0.08 |
| 1986 | 171 | #930 | 0.10 |
| 1985 | 152 | #1,003 | 0.09 |
| 1984 | 175 | #868 | 0.10 |
| 1983 | 176 | #866 | 0.11 |
| 1982 | 163 | #925 | 0.10 |
| 1981 | 167 | #897 | 0.10 |
| 1980 | 212 | #779 | 0.13 |
| 1979 | 199 | #795 | 0.12 |
| 1978 | 137 | #995 | 0.09 |
| 1977 | 134 | #1,004 | 0.09 |
| 1976 | 119 | #1,036 | 0.08 |
| 1975 | 141 | #917 | 0.10 |
| 1974 | 109 | #1,077 | 0.07 |
| 1973 | 130 | #935 | 0.09 |
| 1972 | 114 | #1,024 | 0.07 |
| 1971 | 109 | #1,099 | 0.07 |
| 1970 | 91 | #1,226 | 0.05 |
| 1969 | 59 | #1,548 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 38 | #1,943 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 44 | #1,736 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 36 | #1,922 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 41 | #1,773 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 28 | #2,312 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 28 | #2,258 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 37 | #1,895 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 24 | #2,479 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 25 | #2,378 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 27 | #2,200 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 32 | #1,944 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 16 | #2,943 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 20 | #2,542 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 30 | #1,943 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 26 | #2,078 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 17 | #2,604 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,588 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,310 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 12 | #3,079 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,755 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Charissa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Charissa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 77 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Charissa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Charissa, and how old are they?
4,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 5,140 Americans ever recorded as Charissa. The median Charissa alive today is 42 years old; half are between 33 and 50.
The 2020 Census counted 4,642 people named Charissa (4,642 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,904 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 285 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,610 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,120 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 667 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 218 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Charissa born?
The states with the most babies named Charissa are California, Texas and New York, with 47% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 490 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 347 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 224 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 151 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 133 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 118 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Washington | 105 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 90 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 70 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Indiana | 62 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Charissa is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Charissa is most over-represented in Washington: since 1949 it was given 1.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Charissa with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 13,064 babies since 1880, Charissa is the second most given (39% 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 Charissa
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 Charissa and names like it
- Compare Charissa and CharisseBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sCharissa peaked in 1980.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Charissa since 1910.
- The top names of 1980The year the most babies were named Charissa.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Charissa alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.