Carissa

Where Carissa comes from

The dictionaries list Carissa as a given name — a female given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1949
    First appearance
    #5,244 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1992
    Carissa Moore born
    Native Hawaiian-American surfer
  3. 1992
    Peak, #240
    1,155 babies named Carissa — more than any year before or since.
  4. 2003
    Carissa Yip born
    American chess player
  5. 2005
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #578.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Carissa Moore · Native Hawaiian-American surfer, born 1992
  • Carissa Yip · American chess player, born 2003
  • Carissa Etienne · Caribbean physician, 1952–2023
  • Carissa Norsten · Canadian rugby union and sevens player, born 2003
  • Carissa Springett · Thai actress, born 1998

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.