Chrisa
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Chrisa has been given to 92 babies in the U.S. since 1966. 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 1972, with 9 recorded.
Babies named Chrisa, 1996
1 in 521,000
Chrisa over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Chrisa?
Chrisa had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1996, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1996
- 1 in 521,000
- 7 of 3,646,048 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 250,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1996
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 361,037 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Chrisa sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1996 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 361,037 children born in 1996 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chrisa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Chrisas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Chrisa was born before 1974 — so the typical Chrisa is around 51 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 55.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 68.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 92
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 55.4% of all recorded uses (51).
Is Chrisa 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
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1972 (9)
- Years since peak
- 53
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 18.3% average annual change
Spellings of Chrisa
Chrisa is not the most common spelling — Christy is, with 25.4% against Chrisa's 0.02%.
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.
Chrisa around the world
Where Chrisa 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.
- South Australia2013–2013#818in 2013
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Chrisa by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Chrisa
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Chrisa
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.