Kerissa — girls' name

What the Data Says About Kerissa

The Social Security Administration has registered 502 babies named Kerissa between 1975 and 2019, spanning 45 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kerissa currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 1994, when 29 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kerissa performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 190 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Kerissa shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 16 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Kerissa in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kerissa 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 502 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.