Karissa

Where Karissa comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Karissa.

  • Vowel-ended
Karissa through the years
  1. 1961
    First appearance
    #4,882 among girls with 8 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1991
    Peak, #306
    901 babies named Karissa, the most in any year.
  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

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

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.