Charisse

Where Charisse comes from

Charisse hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1946
    First appearance
    #4,960 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1971
    Peak, #727
    209 babies named Charisse — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1974
    Charisse Sampson born
    American basketball player
  4. 1976
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,172.
  5. 1985
    Charisse Melany Moll born
    Surinamese beauty contestant
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Charisse Melany Moll · Surinamese beauty contestant, born 1985
  • Charisse Sampson · American basketball player, born 1974
  • Charisse Millett · American politician, born 1964
  • Charisse Mills · Trinidadian-American musical artist, born 1988

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.