Karissa
Karissa is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 65 births. Its best rank was 306th, in 1991.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 650.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1991901 births
- Best rank
- #306in 1991
- Since 1961
- 20,026people given the name
The story in the numbers
20,026 girls have been named Karissa in the United States since 1961, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1991, with 901 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1996, and the 1990s alone account for 37%. It has spent 37 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1991, its biggest year
Karissa was the 306th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1991 were Ashley, Jessica, Brittany, Amanda and Samantha. See all of 1991.
Names that rose and fell with Karissa
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Desiraepeak 1993
- Jesseniapeak 1993
- Samanthapeak 1990
- Biancapeak 1991
- Yesseniapeak 1990
- Francheskapeak 1992
- Kayshapeak 1991
- Raychelpeak 1995
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.