# Carissa (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/carissa/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 28,459 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 12 / 28,447 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 218, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 285 | 914 |
| 2012 | 265 | 960 |
| 2013 | 211 | 1,138 |
| 2014 | 167 | 1,383 |
| 2015 | 164 | 1,412 |
| 2016 | 128 | 1,673 |
| 2017 | 131 | 1,645 |
| 2018 | 98 | 1,998 |
| 2019 | 84 | 2,202 |
| 2020 | 90 | 2,053 |
| 2021 | 71 | 2,490 |
| 2022 | 50 | 3,228 |
| 2023 | 57 | 2,943 |
| 2024 | 45 | 3,468 |
| 2025 | 46 | 3,349 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 5 | 6,668 |
| 1989 | 7 | 6,310 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 5 | 4,012 |
| 2011 | 7 | 3,185 |
| 2012 | 7 | 3,285 |
| 2013 | 4 | 4,739 |
| 2014 | 4 | 4,684 |
| 2015 | 10 | 2,496 |
| 2016 | 9 | 2,757 |
| 2018 | 10 | 2,499 |
| 2019 | 4 | 4,686 |
| 2020 | 5 | 3,899 |
| 2021 | 6 | 3,519 |
| 2022 | 8 | 2,888 |
| 2023 | 10 | 2,504 |
| 2024 | 5 | 4,192 |
| 2025 | 4 | 4,867 |

## People named Carissa

- Carissa Yip, American chess player
- Carissa Etienne, Caribbean physician
- Carissa Norsten, Canadian rugby union and sevens player

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.