Kalissa
Kalissa was given to 13 girls in 2025, #8,090 among girls’ names; 1,101 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,090 Americans named Kalissa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 14 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kalissa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kalissa?
#8,090 among girls’ names, 2025
Kalissa fell from #4,783 in 2015 to #8,090 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 16.2 to 8.1 per million.
79 babies in 2007, the peak
Kalissa peaked in 2007, when 79 girls were given it, #2,411 among girls’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 16% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,090 | 8.1 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,178 | 8.0 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,258 | 8.1 |
| 2022 | 10 | #10,036 | 6.1 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,244 | 7.9 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,380 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,351 | 7.7 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,372 | 11.2 |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,163 | 11.6 |
| 2016 | 28 | #4,919 | 15.8 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 29 | #4,783 | 16.2 |
| 2014 | 26 | #5,223 | 14.6 |
| 2013 | 32 | #4,482 | 18.2 |
| 2012 | 41 | #3,816 | 23.3 |
| 2011 | 32 | #4,511 | 18.2 |
| 2010 | 50 | #3,280 | 28.1 |
| 2009 | 43 | #3,704 | 23.4 |
| 2008 | 38 | #4,126 | 20.1 |
| 2007 | 79 | #2,411 | 41.1 |
| 2006 | 72 | #2,546 | 37.9 |
| 2005 | 61 | #2,741 | 33.0 |
| 2004 | 52 | #3,017 | 28.3 |
| 2003 | 49 | #3,064 | 26.8 |
| 2002 | 42 | #3,299 | 23.4 |
| 2001 | 37 | #3,587 | 20.5 |
| 2000 | 45 | #3,090 | 24.8 |
| 1999 | 32 | #3,746 | 18.0 |
| 1998 | 24 | #4,551 | 13.6 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,020 | 6.3 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,461 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,261 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,517 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,232 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,455 | 7.6 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,395 | 7.5 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,154 | 9.5 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,476 | 3.3 |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,845 | 6.2 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,516 | 6.3 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,960 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,894 | 4.6 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,656 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,780 | 4.7 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,587 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kalissa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kalissa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kalissa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kalissa, and how old are they?
1,090 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,101 Americans ever recorded as Kalissa. The median Kalissa alive today is 20 years old; half are between 14 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 953 people named Kalissa (951 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,018 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 6 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 139 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 701 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 242 |
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 Kalissa born?
The states with the most babies named Kalissa are California, Texas and Florida, with 88% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 106 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 72 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Georgia | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Indiana | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New York | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Ohio | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
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 Kalissa 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 4,809 babies since 1880, Kalissa is the most given (23% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 75 babies (17%), the third most given that year.
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 Kalissa
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 Kalissa and names like it
- Compare Kalissa and CalissaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKalissa peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kalissa since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Kalissa.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kalissa alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.