Corissa — girls' name

What the Data Says About Corissa

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,047 babies named Corissa between 1964 and 2020, spanning 57 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Corissa currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2020. The name reached its historical peak in 1990, when 101 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Corissa performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 718 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Corissa shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 147 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Pennsylvania and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Corissa in 14 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Corissa 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 2,047 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.