first name
CHARISSE
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 4,823 people named Charisse, 43.3% reported their origin as Black, 32.5% as White and 11.7% as Asian or Pacific Islander. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Charisse peaked in 1971, when 209 babies got the name.
At least 5,296 babies have been given the name since 1946. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.
Charisse by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #1,578. The largest share of babies named Charisse, 42.8%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.
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 Charisse is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Charisse has been most common in New York (3.8×), Michigan (2.3×), and Illinois (2.2×), and least common in Missouri (0.49×).
3,012 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.
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8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Charisse, most common first.
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