Fewer than five US girls were named Carisa in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #758, reached in 1977. That year also had the most girls given the name: 200. For comparison, it was #9,061 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Carisa in 62 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1958 with 6 babies. In all, 3,025 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 1,368 babies named Carisa.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 30 US girls were named Carisa; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 9.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Carissa (28,459 babies since 1880), Karissa (20,089 babies since 1880), Karisa (2,773 babies since 1880) and Caressa (1,218 babies since 1880).