girls:
5.1k births since 1949
#2360 (59th percentile)
overall:
5.1k births since 1949
#3816 (51st percentile)
The name Charissa is the #3,816 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,121 recorded births since 1949. This represents the 50.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 50.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,360 (58.7% percentile) for all time with 5,121 births since 1949.
Charissa first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1949 (first recorded for girls in 1949).
For girls, Charissa reached its peak popularity in 1980, achieving the 26.3% percentile (ranked #579) with 119 births per million. The name was most common in 1980, with 119 births per million (ranked 26.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Charissa ranks #944 for girls (0.3% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 3.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Charissa".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Charissa", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 24 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Carissa" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Carissa..
Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Charissa. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 27.9% confident that Charissa is pronounced as chuh-RIH-suh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is cher-IH-suh, at 16.3% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like CH AH0 R IH1 S AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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