Karyssa
Karyssa was last recorded in 2019, when 5 babies were given it; 921 Americans have been recorded with it between 1983 and 2019 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Karyssa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Karyssa?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,745, in 2019; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
45 babies in 1993, the peak
Karyssa peaked in 1993, when 45 girls were given it, #2,693 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 5 | #16,745 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,854 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,126 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,142 | 6.8 |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,431 | 3.4 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,242 | 6.7 |
| 2013 | 24 | #5,567 | 13.7 |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,466 | 11.4 |
| 2011 | 27 | #5,130 | 15.3 |
| 2010 | 29 | #4,912 | 16.3 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 31 | #4,741 | 16.9 |
| 2008 | 36 | #4,316 | 19.0 |
| 2007 | 38 | #4,088 | 19.8 |
| 2006 | 32 | #4,519 | 16.8 |
| 2005 | 42 | #3,550 | 22.7 |
| 2004 | 41 | #3,593 | 22.3 |
| 2003 | 43 | #3,385 | 23.5 |
| 2002 | 27 | #4,556 | 15.0 |
| 2001 | 35 | #3,740 | 19.4 |
| 2000 | 43 | #3,184 | 23.7 |
| 1999 | 30 | #3,921 | 16.9 |
| 1998 | 35 | #3,452 | 19.8 |
| 1997 | 35 | #3,320 | 20.1 |
| 1996 | 32 | #3,529 | 18.3 |
| 1995 | 31 | #3,527 | 17.6 |
| 1994 | 41 | #2,903 | 23.0 |
| 1993 | 45 | #2,693 | 24.9 |
| 1992 | 41 | #2,889 | 22.2 |
| 1991 | 38 | #3,008 | 20.3 |
| 1990 | 33 | #3,314 | 17.4 |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,148 | 9.2 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,448 | 6.7 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,236 | 4.0 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,676 | 3.6 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,032 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Karyssa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Karyssa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Karyssa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Karyssa, and how old are they?
An estimated 908 Americans named Karyssa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 19 and 32. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 784 people named Karyssa (784 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 911 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 Karyssa born?
The states with the most babies named Karyssa are California, Texas and New York, with 97% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 118 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 43 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New York | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Ohio | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
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 Karyssa 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 Karyssa?
Karyssa is a less common spelling of Carissa: SSA has recorded 921 Karyssa and 28,459 Carissa since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 54,513 babies since 1880, Karyssa is the fifth most given (1.7% of them). In 2025 none of their 104 babies recorded by SSA was a Karyssa (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 Karyssa
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 Karyssa and names like it
- Compare Karyssa and CarissaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKaryssa peaked in 1993.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Karyssa since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Karyssa.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Karyssa alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.