Girls' name · since 1990
Curissa
28 babies named Curissa in U.S. Social Security records since 1990, with the highest year being 1992. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #41,680 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 28
- born since 1990
- 1990s
- peak decade
Curissa is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 28 have been recorded since 1990.
Curissa has 28 recorded births among girls since 1990, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1990s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1990 to 2010.
- #41,680 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 28 born since 1990
- 1990s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Curissa ranks #41,680 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 28 born since 1990, peaking in the 1990s.
- #41,680 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 28
- born since 1990
- 1990s
- peak decade
Curissa's 28 recorded births place it above 41.88% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Curissa's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Curissa's full recorded timeline at 2000, 57% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 43% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1990, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1992 peak of 7 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Curissa popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1990–2010
- Peak year (1992)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 21 years of records
Curissa by decade
1990s is the heaviest window (12 births, 43% of the file).
1990s was Curissa's strongest decade.
12 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 43% of all-time use.
Curissa births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1990s
1990s
12 births
- 2000s
2000s
11 births
- 2010s
2010s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 1990s at 12 births (43% of all-time use).
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- Curissa's usage has stayed within range of its 1990s decade-level peak (12 total births) through the 2010s (5) -- a comparatively stable name, not a fading trend.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Curissa: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1992)
Similar record span (~20 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1990–2010 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Curissa draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.