Karrisa
Karrisa was last recorded in 2007, when 5 babies were given it; 245 Americans have been recorded with it between 1977 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 Karrisa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Karrisa?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #19,007, in 2007; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
18 babies in 1990, the peak
Karrisa peaked in 1990, when 18 girls were given it, #5,160 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 5 | #19,007 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,104 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,427 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,442 | 3.8 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,104 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,872 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,438 | 3.9 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,127 | 5.6 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,676 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,408 | 4.0 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 15 | #6,197 | 8.6 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,271 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,481 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,138 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,142 | 8.1 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,264 | 5.3 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,160 | 9.5 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,667 | 8.1 |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,012 | 5.1 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,472 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,973 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,462 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,587 | 4.2 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,553 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,646 | 4.1 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,153 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,122 | 3.0 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,032 | 3.9 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,321 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Karrisa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Karrisa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Karrisa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Karrisa, and how old are they?
An estimated 239 Americans named Karrisa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 28 and 38. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 300 people named Karrisa (300 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 241 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% 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 Karrisa?
Karrisa is a less common spelling of Carissa: SSA has recorded 245 Karrisa and 28,459 Carissa since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 57,024 babies since 1880, Karrisa is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 104 babies recorded by SSA was a Karrisa (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 Karrisa
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 Karrisa and names like it
- Compare Karrisa and CarissaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKarrisa peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Karrisa since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Karrisa.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Karrisa alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.