girls:
20k births since 1961
#1034 (82nd percentile)
overall:
20k births since 1961
#1816 (77th percentile)
The name Karissa is the #1,816 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 19,961 recorded births since 1961. This represents the 76.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 76.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,034 (81.9% percentile) for all time with 19,961 births since 1961.
Karissa first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1961 (first recorded for girls in 1961).
For girls, Karissa reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 66.8% percentile (ranked #286) with 448 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 448 births per million (ranked 66.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2003, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Karissa ranks #889 for girls (6.1% percentile) with 36 births per million, which is 8.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Karissa".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Karissa", 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 3 different pronunciations for the name Karissa. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 73.7% confident that Karissa is pronounced as kuh-RIH-suh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kuh-REE-suh, at 18.4% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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