Karlisa
Karlisa was last recorded in 1998, when 5 babies were given it; 120 Americans have been recorded with it between 1972 and 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Karlisa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Karlisa?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,280, in 1998; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
12 babies in 1993, the peak
Karlisa peaked in 1993, when 12 girls were given it, #7,242 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 5 | #15,280 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,866 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,559 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,075 | 4.0 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,242 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,302 | 2.7 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,211 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,822 | 4.7 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,208 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,998 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (18)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 8 | #8,328 | 4.6 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,106 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,740 | 4.1 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,752 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,641 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,556 | 4.2 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,646 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,839 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Karlisa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Karlisa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 18 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Karlisa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Karlisa, and how old are they?
An estimated 116 Americans named Karlisa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 33 and 44. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 150 people named Karlisa (148 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 117 born in the U.S. The Census count is 28% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
How common is the spelling Karlisa?
Karlisa is a less common spelling of Carlisa: SSA has recorded 120 Karlisa and 1,001 Carlisa since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 2,119 babies since 1880, Karlisa is the fourth most given (5.7% of them).
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 Karlisa
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 Karlisa and names like it
- Compare Karlisa and CarlisaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKarlisa peaked in 1993.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Karlisa.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Karlisa alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.