Karyssa — girls' name

What the Data Says About Karyssa

The Social Security Administration has registered 921 babies named Karyssa between 1983 and 2019, spanning 37 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Karyssa currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 1993, when 45 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Karyssa performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 368 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Karyssa shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 118 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Karyssa in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Karyssa in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 921 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.