How rare is the name Charissa?

4,642 people in the United States have the first name Charissa, about 1 in 65,065. It ranks #4,135 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

CHARISSA

#4,135

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,642
About
1 in 65,065
This common or more
83.6%
Who bears it

Of the 4,642 people named Charissa, 64.7% reported their origin as White, 13% as Black and 8.5% as Asian or Pacific Islander. Virtually all are female (100%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Charissa peaked in 1980, when 212 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19492025
Peak year
1980
Births that year
212
In 2025*
8 ▼96%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 5,140 babies have been given the name since 1949. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Charissa by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #1,612. The largest share of babies named Charissa, 42.5%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1940s#11,8886
1950s#3,946201
1960s#3,118360
1970s#1,7011,283
1980s#1,6121,653
1990s#2,797936
2000s#6,205403
2010s#9,429237
2020s#16,01261
Baby boom 1946–646.8%
Generation X 1965–8033.3%
Millennials 1981–9642.5%
Generation Z 1997–1213.1%
2013 and later4.3%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Charissa is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Charissa has been most common in Washington (2.8×), Oregon (2.6×), and California (2.1×), and least common in Georgia (0.56×).

2,264 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Charissa

#4,133 Jasiah · 4,648#4,134 Gaby · 4,645#4,136 Keshawn · 4,641#4,137 Saniyah · 4,640

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Charissa, most common first.

#3,334 Chrissy · 6,361#4,026 Charisse · 4,823#4,653 Charis · 3,934#7,934 Charise · 1,860#12,557 Cherisse · 988#14,066 Chriss · 844#16,782 Chrissa · 667#22,581 Charisa · 440

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