Korissa
Korissa was last recorded in 2011, when 7 babies were given it; 357 Americans have been recorded with it between 1977 and 2011 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Korissa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Korissa?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,116, in 2011; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
28 babies in 1993, the peak
Korissa peaked in 1993, when 28 girls were given it, #3,825 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 7 | #14,116 | 4.0 |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,131 | 2.6 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,505 | 5.7 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,394 | 4.9 |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,545 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,262 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,070 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,492 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,292 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,340 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 14 | #6,901 | 7.9 |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,077 | 7.5 |
| 1996 | 25 | #4,248 | 14.3 |
| 1995 | 27 | #3,927 | 15.4 |
| 1994 | 20 | #4,926 | 11.2 |
| 1993 | 28 | #3,825 | 15.5 |
| 1992 | 23 | #4,453 | 12.5 |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,285 | 9.6 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,866 | 4.7 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,421 | 8.7 |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,174 | 9.0 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,542 | 6.3 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,110 | 4.7 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,960 | 3.5 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,508 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,765 | 4.8 |
| 1979 | 9 | #7,009 | 5.6 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,010 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Korissa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Korissa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Korissa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Korissa, and how old are they?
An estimated 350 Americans named Korissa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 27 and 36. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 341 people named Korissa (340 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 351 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below 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 Korissa?
Korissa is a less common spelling of Corissa: SSA has recorded 357 Korissa and 2,047 Corissa since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,634 babies since 1880, Korissa is the second most given (14% of them).
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 Korissa
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 Korissa and names like it
- Compare Korissa and CorissaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKorissa peaked in 1993.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Korissa since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Korissa.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Korissa alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.