Karissa
#2,895 for girls in 2025, 58 births
- Peak · girls
- 1991 · 901 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 20,089since 1961
Karissa over time
Rank among girls' names. Karissa has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,895 | 58 |
| 2024 | #2,607 | 67 |
| 2023 | #2,730 | 63 |
| 2022 | #2,490 | 72 |
| 2021 | #2,384 | 75 |
| 2020 | #1,818 | 108 |
| 2019 | #1,888 | 106 |
| 2018 | #1,840 | 110 |
| 2017 | #1,591 | 137 |
| 2016 | #1,394 | 167 |
| 2015 | #1,247 | 196 |
| 2014 | #1,198 | 203 |
| 2013 | #968 | 260 |
| 2012 | #876 | 304 |
| 2011 | #821 | 323 |
| 2010 | #736 | 378 |
| 2009 | #831 | 337 |
| 2008 | #798 | 362 |
| 2007 | #658 | 449 |
| 2006 | #616 | 471 |
| 2005 | #598 | 474 |
| 2004 | #546 | 523 |
| 2003 | #454 | 660 |
| 2002 | #459 | 621 |
| 2001 | #499 | 551 |
| 2000 | #434 | 649 |
| 1999 | #437 | 622 |
| 1998 | #428 | 619 |
| 1997 | #433 | 588 |
| 1996 | #422 | 603 |
| 1995 | #363 | 720 |
| 1994 | #345 | 770 |
| 1993 | #311 | 855 |
| 1992 | #309 | 898 |
| 1991 | #306 | 901 |
| 1990 | #313 | 870 |
| 1989 | #345 | 739 |
| 1988 | #412 | 565 |
| 1987 | #517 | 402 |
| 1986 | #518 | 399 |
| 1985 | #542 | 368 |
| 1984 | #579 | 316 |
| 1983 | #646 | 266 |
| 1982 | #672 | 264 |
| 1981 | #643 | 276 |
| 1980 | #767 | 215 |
| 1979 | #864 | 179 |
| 1978 | #858 | 171 |
| 1977 | #965 | 143 |
| 1976 | #1,086 | 112 |
| 1975 | #1,219 | 94 |
| 1974 | #1,351 | 77 |
| 1973 | #1,349 | 74 |
| 1972 | #1,786 | 48 |
| 1971 | #2,035 | 41 |
| 1970 | #1,828 | 48 |
| 1969 | #2,396 | 29 |
| 1968 | #3,315 | 16 |
| 1967 | #2,781 | 20 |
| 1966 | #2,839 | 19 |
| 1965 | #3,733 | 12 |
| 1964 | #6,767 | 5 |
| 1963 | #5,296 | 7 |
| 1962 | #5,860 | 6 |
| 1961 | #4,882 | 8 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Karissa! It came in at #4,882, and was given to 8 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1962–1964, when fewer than 8 girls a year got the name.
Where Karissa is popular in 2015
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Mexico#321 · 1 in 1,091
- South Carolina#754 · 1 in 3,675
- Minnesota#870 · 1 in 4,893
- Colorado#878 · 1 in 4,679
- California#887 · 1 in 5,404
Best ever in a state: #89 in Montana, 1990.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Mexico | #321 | 6 | 1 in 1,091 |
| South Carolina | #754 | 5 | 1 in 3,675 |
| Minnesota | #870 | 5 | 1 in 4,893 |
| Colorado | #878 | 5 | 1 in 4,679 |
| California | #887 | 38 | 1 in 5,404 |
| Georgia | #962 | 9 | 1 in 5,410 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,021 | 8 | 1 in 6,599 |
| New Jersey | #1,056 | 6 | 1 in 6,194 |
| Tennessee | #1,061 | 5 | 1 in 6,231 |
| Texas | #1,066 | 26 | 1 in 6,526 |
| Michigan | #1,274 | 5 | 1 in 8,438 |
| North Carolina | #1,391 | 5 | 1 in 9,081 |
| Ohio | #1,447 | 5 | 1 in 10,556 |
| Florida | #1,471 | 8 | 1 in 10,746 |
| Illinois | #1,634 | 5 | 1 in 11,706 |
| New York | #1,961 | 6 | 1 in 15,220 |
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See more about Karissa
- 288 spots since 2024 (#2,607 → #2,895)
- 1,077 spots since 2020 (#1,818 → #2,895)
- 1,648 spots since 2015 (#1,247 → #2,895)
- Biggest jump: 124 spots in 1981 (#767 → #643)
- Biggest drop: 230 spots in 2014 (#968 → #1,198)
- Debuted 1961
- Peaked 1991 at #306 (901 births)
- Births halved by 2007, 16 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 37 yrs · run 1977–2013
- Highest: 1 in 2,053 girls born in 1992 were named Karissa (0.05%)
- Latest: 1 in 27,711 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #306 in 1991, was only 1 in 2,081 (0.05%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 37.1% of all girls named Karissa (7,446) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1960s | 122 | #2,396 (1969) | #4,208 |
| 1970s | 987 | #858 (1978) | #1,334 |
| 1980s | 3,810 | #345 (1989) | #564 |
| 1990s | 7,446 | #306 (1991) | #367 |
| 2000s | 5,097 | #434 (2000) | #589 |
| 2010s | 2,184 | #736 (2010) | #1,256 |
| 2020s | 443 | #1,818 (2020) | #2,487 |
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.
Karissa in 2015
Top girls' names in 2015
More about 2015
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1,785,098 girls got a published name in 2015; 1 in 9,108 of them was named Karissa, which outranked 93.5% of the 19,130 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,239Nahla197
- #1,239Nellie197
- #1,239Vivianna197
- #1,247Karissa196
- #1,247Anneliese196
- #1,247Emerald196
- #1,247Leena196
- #1,255Estefania195
- #1,255Karis195
- #1,255Miyah195
Tied with 7 names at #1,247; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.