Karrissa
Karrissa was last recorded in 2014, when 5 babies were given it; 356 Americans have been recorded with it between 1973 and 2014 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Karrissa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Karrissa?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,834, in 2014; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
25 babies in 1991, the peak
Karrissa peaked in 1991, when 25 girls were given it, #4,118 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 5 | #17,834 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,058 | 6.2 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,737 | 5.1 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,179 | 4.2 |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,008 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,105 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,156 | 4.4 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,770 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,141 | 6.1 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,531 | 5.0 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 11 | #8,856 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,128 | 5.6 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,259 | 6.2 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,483 | 6.9 |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,165 | 10.8 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,497 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,603 | 12.3 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,313 | 9.9 |
| 1992 | 22 | #4,601 | 11.9 |
| 1991 | 25 | #4,118 | 13.3 |
| 1990 | 20 | #4,764 | 10.5 |
| 1989 | 14 | #5,962 | 7.6 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,761 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,473 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,935 | 7.0 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,677 | 5.8 |
| 1984 | 11 | #6,073 | 6.5 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,027 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,149 | 5.3 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,512 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,980 | 5.6 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,991 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Karrissa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Karrissa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Karrissa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Karrissa, and how old are they?
An estimated 348 Americans named Karrissa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 26 and 37. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 369 people named Karrissa (369 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 350 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
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 Karrissa?
Karrissa is a less common spelling of Carissa: SSA has recorded 356 Karrissa and 28,459 Carissa since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 54,562 babies since 1880, Karrissa is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 104 babies recorded by SSA was a Karrissa (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 Karrissa
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 Karrissa and names like it
- Compare Karrissa and CarissaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKarrissa peaked in 1991.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Karrissa.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Karrissa alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.