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Charisse

Girls' name

French surname transferred into given-name use

Charisse has been given to 5,296 babies in the U.S. since 1946. 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 1971, with 209 recorded.

Babies named Charisse, 2021

1 in 565,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Charisse: meaning, origin, and history

French surname transferred into given-name use

French surname transfer

What Charisse means

Charisse is a given name.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Charisse is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ʃə.ˈɹis/ for Charisse.

The naming story behind Charisse

Charisse is a given name adopted from French surname. This establishes the immediate naming route. A surname transfer is different from a direct translation of the modern given-name spelling; the family name may have its own earlier derivation.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,296 girls were recorded with the name Charisse between 1946 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 209 in 1971; its best national rank was #727 in 1971.

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 Charisse?

Charisse 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 565,000
6 of 3,389,958 births
Among girls only
1 in 273,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
391,624 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Charisse 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 391,624 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Charisse. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Charisses were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Charisse was born before 1974 — so the typical Charisse is around 51 today.

Median birth year
1974
About 51 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
27.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
7.2%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
5,248
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 27.2% of all recorded uses (1,441).

Is Charisse 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 1971 (209)
Years since peak
54
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#727
1971

Spellings of Charisse

Charisse is not the most common spelling — Clarissa is, with 36.9% against Charisse's 4.8%.

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 Charisse is used

Across 1910–2025, Charisse was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 37,177 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 14,286
  2. 2California1 in 25,000
  3. 3Hawaii1 in 25,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in 25,000
  5. 5Michigan1 in 25,000
  6. 6Ohio1 in 33,333
  7. 7Louisiana1 in 50,000
  8. 8Maryland1 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. Charisse has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Charisse around the world

Where Charisse 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
    1996–2011
    #5,785
    in 2011
  • Scotland
    1998–2004
    #663
    in 2004
  • Canada
    1992–2009
    #1,976
    in 2009
  • South Australia
    1955–2004
    #700
    in 2004

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS 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 Charisse

People whose public names include Charisse, 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.

Charisse in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Charisse. Linked forms have their own page here.

Charise

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Charisse 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
#727
1971
Peak year
1971
209 that year
First recorded
1946
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
5,296
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Charisse

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

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Names with a curve like Charisse

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

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Sibling names for Charisse

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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