Meaning not yet researched.
Kalissa: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 13 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,411 in 2007.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,411 in 2007; #8,092 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kalissa in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,092 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2007, at #2,411.
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Kalissa: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 13 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,411 in 2007 · most girls in one year: 79 (2007).
In 2025, 13 US girls were named Kalissa, making it the 8,092nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 91 places from #8,183 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 13 girls named Kalissa in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,411, reached in 2007. That year also had the most girls given the name: 79. For comparison, it was #4,784 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kalissa in 44 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1976 with 6 babies. In all, 1,101 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 518 babies named Kalissa.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 157 US girls were named Kalissa; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 28. In 2025 that was about 1 in 123,636 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Calissa, Kalyssa and Kalisa 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Calissa (910), Kalyssa (852), Kalisa (509), Calyssa (295), Calisa (158), Kalysa (59), Kaylissa (39), Kaylisa (34), Kallissa (30), Kalesa (10), Kaleesa (6), Kaliza (6), and more.
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 Kalissa 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 | 13 | #8,092 | — | — |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,183 | — | — |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,263 | — | — |
| 2022 | 10 | #10,041 | — | — |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,249 | — | — |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,385 | — | — |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,356 | — | — |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,376 | — | — |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,167 | — | — |
| 2016 | 28 | #4,920 | — | — |
| 2015 | 29 | #4,784 | — | — |
| 2014 | 26 | #5,225 | — | — |
| 2013 | 32 | #4,484 | — | — |
| 2012 | 41 | #3,817 | — | — |
| 2011 | 32 | #4,512 | — | — |
| 2010 | 50 | #3,281 | — | — |
| 2009 | 43 | #3,705 | — | — |
| 2008 | 38 | #4,127 | — | — |
| 2007 | 79 | #2,411 | — | — |
| 2006 | 72 | #2,546 | — | — |
| 2005 | 61 | #2,745 | — | — |
| 2004 | 52 | #3,021 | — | — |
| 2003 | 49 | #3,067 | — | — |
| 2002 | 42 | #3,303 | — | — |
| 2001 | 37 | #3,591 | — | — |
| 2000 | 45 | #3,094 | — | — |
| 1999 | 32 | #3,750 | — | — |
| 1998 | 24 | #4,554 | — | — |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,025 | — | — |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,466 | — | — |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,266 | — | — |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,523 | — | — |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,238 | — | — |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,461 | — | — |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,401 | — | — |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,159 | — | — |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,482 | — | — |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,850 | — | — |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,521 | — | — |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,965 | — | — |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,897 | — | — |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,661 | — | — |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,782 | — | — |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,589 | — | — |
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).