Karisa
Karisa was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 2,773 Americans have been recorded with it between 1961 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,700 Americans named Karisa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 27 and 41.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Karisa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Karisa?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,442, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
161 babies in 1992, the peak
Karisa peaked in 1992, when 161 girls were given it, #1,108 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #16,442 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,687 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 5 | #16,473 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,278 | 3.1 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,699 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,190 | 4.6 |
| 2016 | 18 | #6,776 | 10.2 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,203 | 7.8 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,862 | 8.4 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,341 | 8.0 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 20 | #6,465 | 11.4 |
| 2011 | 27 | #5,128 | 15.3 |
| 2010 | 22 | #6,061 | 12.4 |
| 2009 | 30 | #4,869 | 16.3 |
| 2008 | 37 | #4,227 | 19.6 |
| 2007 | 45 | #3,627 | 23.4 |
| 2006 | 27 | #5,163 | 14.2 |
| 2005 | 40 | #3,677 | 21.6 |
| 2004 | 55 | #2,903 | 30.0 |
| 2003 | 51 | #2,971 | 27.9 |
| 2002 | 54 | #2,799 | 30.1 |
| 2001 | 60 | #2,547 | 33.3 |
| 2000 | 57 | #2,611 | 31.4 |
| 1999 | 65 | #2,291 | 36.6 |
| 1998 | 61 | #2,319 | 34.5 |
| 1997 | 66 | #2,119 | 37.9 |
| 1996 | 85 | #1,758 | 48.5 |
| 1995 | 84 | #1,736 | 47.8 |
| 1994 | 95 | #1,595 | 53.2 |
| 1993 | 139 | #1,244 | 76.8 |
| 1992 | 161 | #1,108 | 87.3 |
| 1991 | 129 | #1,291 | 68.8 |
| 1990 | 132 | #1,244 | 69.5 |
| 1989 | 108 | #1,391 | 58.6 |
| 1988 | 91 | #1,499 | 51.1 |
| 1987 | 75 | #1,637 | 43.1 |
| 1986 | 83 | #1,501 | 48.4 |
| 1985 | 66 | #1,732 | 38.4 |
| 1984 | 60 | #1,797 | 35.6 |
| 1983 | 47 | #2,113 | 28.1 |
| 1982 | 62 | #1,771 | 36.6 |
| 1981 | 52 | #2,017 | 31.2 |
| 1980 | 73 | #1,591 | 44.0 |
| 1979 | 70 | #1,615 | 43.6 |
| 1978 | 49 | #1,974 | 32.0 |
| 1977 | 52 | #1,911 | 33.9 |
| 1976 | 39 | #2,188 | 26.6 |
| 1975 | 37 | #2,254 | 25.4 |
| 1974 | 43 | #1,976 | 29.3 |
| 1973 | 20 | #3,282 | 13.7 |
| 1972 | 24 | #2,851 | 15.8 |
| 1971 | 24 | #2,903 | 14.4 |
| 1970 | 16 | #3,781 | 9.2 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,220 | 5.3 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,349 | 4.9 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,182 | 4.8 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,038 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,124 | 3.4 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,180 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Karisa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Karisa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 59 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Karisa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Karisa, and how old are they?
2,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 2,773 Americans ever recorded as Karisa. The median Karisa alive today is 34 years old; half are between 27 and 41.
The 2020 Census counted 2,468 people named Karisa (2,466 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,695 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 5 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 455 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,430 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 709 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 97 |
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 Karisa born?
The states with the most babies named Karisa are California, Texas and Pennsylvania, with 54% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 284 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 134 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 80 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New York | 72 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Washington | 63 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 49 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Wisconsin | 46 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 42 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 33 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Indiana | 32 | not ranked | 0.5× |
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 Karisa with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Karisa?
Karisa is a less common spelling of Carissa: SSA has recorded 2,773 Karisa and 28,459 Carissa since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 56,622 babies since 1880, Karisa is the fourth most given (4.9% of them). In 2025 none of their 104 babies recorded by SSA was a Karisa (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Karisa
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 Karisa and names like it
- Compare Karisa and CarissaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKarisa peaked in 1992.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Karisa since 1910.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Karisa.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Karisa alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.