Charlisa — girls' name

What the Data Says About Charlisa

The Social Security Administration has registered 596 babies named Charlisa between 1959 and 2013, spanning 55 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Charlisa currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2013. The name reached its historical peak in 1989, when 33 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Charlisa performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 164 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Charlisa shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in South Carolina, which accounts for 11 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Mississippi. In total, SSA state-level files list Charlisa in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Charlisa 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 596 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.