girls:
28.4k births since 1949
#849 (85th percentile)
boys:
12 births since 1985
#4574 (0th percentile)
overall:
28.4k births since 1949
#1513 (80th percentile)
The name Carissa is the #1,513 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 28,367 recorded births since 1949. This represents the 80.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 80.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #849 (85.2% percentile) for all time with 28,355 births since 1949. For boys, it ranks #4,574 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 12 births since 1985.
Carissa first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1949 (1949 for girls and 1985 for boys). Birth data for Carissa is available in 73 out of the 75 years between 1949 and 2023 (73 years for girls and 2 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Carissa has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 100.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Carissa reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 73.4% percentile (ranked #229) with 577 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 577 births per million (ranked 73.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1993, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Carissa ranks #895 for girls (5.5% percentile) with 33 births per million, which is 5.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Carissa reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #751) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1989.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Carissa".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Carissa. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 75.6% confident that Carissa is pronounced as kuh-RIH-suh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kah-REE-suh, at 14.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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