Meaning not yet researched.
Charissa: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #779 in 1980.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #779 in 1980; #11,145 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Charissa in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,145 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1980, at #779.
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Charissa: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 girls in 2025. Peak: #779 in 1980 · most girls in one year: 212 (1980).
In 2025, 8 US girls were named Charissa, making it the 11,145th most common girls’ name of the year, down 2,086 places from #9,059 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 11 girls named Charissa in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #779, reached in 1980. That year also had the most girls given the name: 212. For comparison, it was #5,015 in 2015 and #3,080 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Charissa in 77 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1949 with 6 babies. In all, 5,140 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 1,653 babies named Charissa.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 142 US girls were named Charissa; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 25. In 2025 that was about 1 in 200,908 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Charisa, Kharissa and Charrissa are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Charisa (395), Kharissa (63), Charrissa (30), Charessa (17).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Charissa in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,145 | — | — |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,059 | — | — |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,396 | — | — |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,350 | — | — |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,587 | — | — |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,412 | — | — |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,699 | — | — |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,068 | — | — |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,401 | — | — |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,315 | — | — |
| 2015 | 27 | #5,015 | — | — |
| 2014 | 31 | #4,567 | — | — |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,523 | — | — |
| 2012 | 26 | #5,286 | — | — |
| 2011 | 29 | #4,831 | — | — |
| 2010 | 24 | #5,644 | — | — |
| 2009 | 26 | #5,423 | — | — |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,036 | — | — |
| 2007 | 41 | #3,868 | — | — |
| 2006 | 42 | #3,684 | — | — |
| 2005 | 36 | #3,967 | — | — |
| 2004 | 47 | #3,228 | — | — |
| 2003 | 35 | #3,893 | — | — |
| 2002 | 41 | #3,348 | — | — |
| 2001 | 43 | #3,206 | — | — |
| 2000 | 63 | #2,432 | — | — |
| 1999 | 63 | #2,351 | — | — |
| 1998 | 61 | #2,314 | — | — |
| 1997 | 69 | #2,049 | — | — |
| 1996 | 63 | #2,158 | — | — |
| 1995 | 82 | #1,765 | — | — |
| 1994 | 94 | #1,612 | — | — |
| 1993 | 119 | #1,375 | — | — |
| 1992 | 121 | #1,370 | — | — |
| 1991 | 115 | #1,398 | — | — |
| 1990 | 149 | #1,156 | — | — |
| 1989 | 155 | #1,085 | — | — |
| 1988 | 135 | #1,132 | — | — |
| 1987 | 147 | #1,050 | — | — |
| 1986 | 171 | #930 | — | — |
| 1985 | 152 | #1,003 | — | — |
| 1984 | 175 | #868 | — | — |
| 1983 | 176 | #866 | — | — |
| 1982 | 163 | #925 | — | — |
| 1981 | 167 | #897 | — | — |
| 1980 | 212 | #779 | — | — |
| 1979 | 199 | #795 | — | — |
| 1978 | 137 | #995 | — | — |
| 1977 | 134 | #1,004 | — | — |
| 1976 | 119 | #1,036 | — | — |
| 1975 | 141 | #917 | — | — |
| 1974 | 109 | #1,077 | — | — |
| 1973 | 130 | #935 | — | — |
| 1972 | 114 | #1,024 | — | — |
| 1971 | 109 | #1,099 | — | — |
| 1970 | 91 | #1,226 | — | — |
| 1969 | 59 | #1,548 | — | — |
| 1968 | 38 | #1,943 | — | — |
| 1967 | 44 | #1,736 | — | — |
| 1966 | 36 | #1,922 | — | — |
| 1965 | 41 | #1,773 | — | — |
| 1964 | 28 | #2,313 | — | — |
| 1963 | 28 | #2,259 | — | — |
| 1962 | 37 | #1,896 | — | — |
| 1961 | 24 | #2,480 | — | — |
| 1960 | 25 | #2,379 | — | — |
| 1959 | 27 | #2,201 | — | — |
| 1958 | 32 | #1,945 | — | — |
| 1957 | 16 | #2,944 | — | — |
| 1956 | 20 | #2,543 | — | — |
| 1955 | 30 | #1,944 | — | — |
| 1954 | 26 | #2,079 | — | — |
| 1953 | 17 | #2,605 | — | — |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,589 | — | — |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,311 | — | — |
| 1950 | 12 | #3,080 | — | — |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,756 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).