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Charissa

#11,141 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Charis

Charissa has been given to 5,140 babies in the U.S. since 1949. In 2025 it ranked #11,141 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1980, with 212 recorded.

Babies named Charissa, 2025

1 in 414,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Charissa: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Charis

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Charissa means

Charissa is a form of Charis.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Charissa is used in English and Dutch.

Another recorded pronunciation is /kə.ˈɹɪs.ə/ and /ʃaː.ˈrɪ.saː/ for Charissa.

Origin, language, and formation

Charissa is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Charis.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,140 girls were recorded with the name Charissa between 1949 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 212 in 1980; its best national rank was #779 in 1980.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #12,407 in 2020 to #11,141 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,013 in 2015 to #11,141 in 2025.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Charissa?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 201,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#11,141
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Charissa 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 2025 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Charissa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Charissas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Charissa was born before 1984 — so the typical Charissa is around 41 today.

Median birth year
1984
About 41 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
32.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
12.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
5,134
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Choose a decade

1980s — 32.2% of all recorded uses (1,653).

Is Charissa 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
−2,087
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,266
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−6,128
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.30×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
3.8%
Peak was 1980 (212)
Years since peak
45
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#779
1980

Spellings of Charissa

Charissa is not the most common spelling — Marissa is, with 38.0% against Charissa's 1.6%.

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 Charissa is used

Across 1910–2025, Charissa was most concentrated in Oregon — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 60,503 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oregon1 in 25,000
  2. 2Washington1 in 25,000
  3. 3California1 in 33,333
  4. 4Texas1 in 33,333
  5. 5Colorado1 in 50,000
  6. 6Indiana1 in 50,000
  7. 7New York1 in 50,000
  8. 8Ohio1 in 50,000

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

Charissa around the world

Where Charissa 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
    1998–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2006
    #1,936
    in 2006
  • South Australia
    1967–2010
    #801
    in 2010

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

Notable people named Charissa

People whose public names include Charissa, 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.

Charissa by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,141
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,266
Best rank ever
#779
1980
Peak year
1980
212 that year
First recorded
1949
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,140
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Charissa

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

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Names with a curve like Charissa

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

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Sibling names for Charissa

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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