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Carlisa

Girls' name

Combination of Carla and Lisa

Carlisa has been given to 1,001 babies in the U.S. since 1957. 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 1990, with 39 recorded.

Babies named Carlisa, 2014

1 in 741,000

Carlisa 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Carlisa: meaning, origin, and history

Combination of Carla and Lisa

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Carlisa means

Carlisa is a given name.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Carlisa is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /kɑɹ.ˈli.sə/ and /kɑː.ˈliː.sə/ for Carlisa.

The naming story behind Carlisa

The reference identifies Carlisa as a combination of Carla and Lisa. This is a documented two-name formation.

The histories of Carla and Lisa belong to their separate source entries. The source does not identify every bearer’s family motivation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Carla and Lisa.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,001 girls were recorded with the name Carlisa between 1957 and 2014. Its highest annual count was 39 in 1990; its best national rank was #2,462 in 1975.

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 Carlisa?

Carlisa had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2014, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2014
1 in 741,000
5 of 3,706,812 births
Among girls only
1 in 357,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2014
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
513,874 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Carlisa 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 2014 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 513,874 children born in 2014 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Carlisa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Carlisas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Carlisa was born before 1983 — so the typical Carlisa is around 42 today.

Median birth year
1983
About 42 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
25.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
31.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,001
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 25.5% of all recorded uses (255).

Is Carlisa 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1990 (39)
Years since peak
35
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,462
1975

Spellings of Carlisa

Carlisa is not the most common spelling — Carla is, with 35.6% against Carlisa's 0.24%.

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 Carlisa is used

Across 1910–2025, Carlisa was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 537,302 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in —
  2. 2Georgia1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4Mississippi1 in —
  5. 5Ohio1 in —

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. Carlisa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Carlisa around the world

Where Carlisa 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.

  • England & Wales
    2014–2014
    #5,691
    in 2014
  • South Australia
    2000–2000
    #727
    in 2000

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Carlisa 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
—
Best rank ever
#2,462
1975
Peak year
1990
39 that year
First recorded
1957
Last recorded
2014
All-time count
1,001
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Carlisa

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

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Sibling names for Carlisa

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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