Karissa

Where Karissa comes from

Karissa 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. 1961
    First appearance
    #4,882 among girls, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1991
    Peak, #306
    901 babies named Karissa — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1996
    Karissa Schweizer born
    American athletics competitor
  4. 2007
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #658.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Karissa Schweizer · American athletics competitor, born 1996
  • Karissa Sanbonmatsu · American structural biologist

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.