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Carisa

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Carisa has been given to 3,025 babies in the U.S. since 1958. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1977, with 200 recorded.

Babies named Carisa, 2021

1 in 678,000

Carisa over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Carisa: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Carisa means

Carisa is a given name.

The naming story behind Carisa

Wikidata records Carisa as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q98651369, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,025 girls were recorded with the name Carisa between 1958 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 200 in 1977; its best national rank was #758 in 1977.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Carisa?

Carisa had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 678,000
5 of 3,389,958 births
Among girls only
1 in 328,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,949 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Carisa sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2021 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 469,949 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Carisa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Carisas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Carisa was born before 1979 — so the typical Carisa is around 46 today.

Median birth year
1979
About 46 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
45.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
14.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,025
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 45.2% of all recorded uses (1,368).

Is Carisa rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1977 (200)
Years since peak
48
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#758
1977

Spellings of Carisa

Carisa is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 31.7% against Carisa's 0.17%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Carisa is used

Across 1910–2025, Carisa was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 117,208 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2Arizona1 in 100,000
  3. 3Colorado1 in 100,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 100,000
  5. 5Iowa1 in 100,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 100,000
  7. 7Indiana1 in 100,000
  8. 8Kentucky1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Carisa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Carisa around the world

Where Carisa ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • Canada
    1993–1993
    #2,426
    in 1993
  • South Australia
    1985–1993
    #712
    in 1993

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Carisa

People whose public names include Carisa, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Carisa by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#758
1977
Peak year
1977
200 that year
First recorded
1958
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
3,025
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Carisa

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Carisa

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Carisa, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

KeeshaCrissyCicelyNicholQianaLatrinaShaneShawnnaRashidaMistieShawandaTomika

Sibling names for Carisa

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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