Karlissa
Karlissa was last recorded in 2007, when 6 babies were given it; 86 Americans have been recorded with it between 1984 and 2007 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Karlissa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Karlissa?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,496, in 2007; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
9 babies in 1990, the peak
Karlissa peaked in 1990, when 9 girls were given it, #8,823 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 6 | #16,496 | 3.1 |
| 2006 | 5 | #18,572 | 2.6 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,754 | 3.3 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,141 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,474 | 2.8 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,536 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,134 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,077 | 4.9 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,935 | 4.8 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,823 | 4.7 |
Every recorded year (13)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 6 | #11,495 | 3.3 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,000 | 3.4 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,171 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Karlissa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Karlissa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 13 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Karlissa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Karlissa, and how old are they?
An estimated 84 Americans named Karlissa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 117 people named Karlissa (114 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 85 born in the U.S. The Census count is 38% 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 Karlissa?
Karlissa is a less common spelling of Carlisa: SSA has recorded 86 Karlissa and 1,001 Carlisa since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 1,926 babies since 1880, Karlissa is the fourth most given (4.5% 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 Karlissa
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 Karlissa and names like it
- Compare Karlissa and CarlisaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKarlissa peaked in 1990.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Karlissa.
- Names starting with KMost given first.