Sharissa — girls' name

What the Data Says About Sharissa

The Social Security Administration has registered 502 babies named Sharissa between 1970 and 2012, spanning 43 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Sharissa currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2012. The name reached its historical peak in 2002, when 33 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Sharissa performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 163 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Sharissa shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California. In total, SSA state-level files list Sharissa in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Sharissa 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.