Calissa

Peak · girls
1999 · 47 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
910
since 1962

Calissa over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Calissa has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank18801900192019401960198020002020peak #2,854, 1999girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#7,88513
2024#7,96713
2023#12,1977
2022#8,54212
2021#8,46412
2020#7,55914
2019#8,59712
2018#5,31524
2017#6,04420
2016#7,98814
2015#4,48831
2014#4,76829
2013#3,70341
2012#5,11427
2011#6,56419
2010#4,39733
2009#3,80041
2008#4,36035
2007#3,65344
2006#3,99237
2005#3,58741
2004#3,89836
2003#4,66827
2002#3,97832
2001#2,92449
2000#4,18529
1999#2,85447
1998#4,95521
1997#7,28312
1996#13,5185
1995#10,5147
1994#11,7786
1993#6,62213
1992#7,51211
1991#5,00419
1990#7,30311
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1988#9,2447
1987#7,3539
1986#7,1349
1985#8,3187
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1983#10,2755
1982#8,2247
1981#10,4115
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First appearance
1962

The first year at least five girls were named Calissa! It came in at #5,860, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1963–1978, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Calissa is popular in 2025

No state had 5 or more girls named Calissa in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Calissa
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 82 spots since 2024 (#7,967 → #7,885)
  • 326 spots since 2020 (#7,559 → #7,885)
  • 3,397 spots since 2015 (#4,488 → #7,885)
Rise & fade · girls
37 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1962
  • Peaked 1999 at #2,854 (47 births)
  • Births halved by 2011, 12 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 36,747
  • Highest: 1 in 36,747 girls born in 2001 were named Calissa (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 123,636 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #2,854 in 1999, was only 1 in 37,741 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 40.8% of all girls named Calissa (371) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s6#5,860 (1962)#5,860
1970s11#8,324 (1971)#8,667
1980s49#7,134 (1986)#8,708
1990s152#2,854 (1999)#7,734
2000s371#2,924 (2001)#3,905
2010s250#3,703 (2013)#5,698
2020s71#7,559 (2020)#8,769

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

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