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Karisa

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Karisa has been given to 2,773 babies in the U.S. since 1961. 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 1992, with 161 recorded.

Babies named Karisa, 2024

1 in 669,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Karisa: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Karisa means

Karisa is a given name.

The naming story behind Karisa

Wikidata records Karisa as a given name. The entity identifier is Q115148382, 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, 2,773 girls were recorded with the name Karisa between 1961 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 161 in 1992; its best national rank was #1,108 in 1992.

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 Karisa?

Karisa had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 324,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Karisa 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 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Karisa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Karisas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Karisa was born before 1991 — so the typical Karisa is around 34 today.

Median birth year
1991
About 34 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
36.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
22.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,773
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 36.7% of all recorded uses (1,017).

Is Karisa 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 1992 (161)
Years since peak
33
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,108
1992

Spellings of Karisa

Karisa is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 30.1% against Karisa's 0.15%.

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 Karisa is used

Across 1910–2025, Karisa was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 120,106 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2Washington1 in 50,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 100,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in 100,000
  5. 5Indiana1 in 100,000
  6. 6Minnesota1 in 100,000
  7. 7New York1 in 100,000
  8. 8Ohio1 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. Karisa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Karisa around the world

Where Karisa 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
    1991–2008
    #3,151
    in 2008
  • South Australia
    1981–1992
    #704
    in 1992

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.

Karisa 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
#1,108
1992
Peak year
1992
161 that year
First recorded
1961
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
2,773
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Karisa

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

KarelyKarimeKarlynKarenaKarmynKarymeKarsonKarsenKarterKarimaKarrisaKarineKarmenKarismaKarminKarleyKarynaKarsynKarriKarrieKaralynKareenaKarlisaKarie

Names with a curve like Karisa

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

DanishaLashayMelyssaMyeshaRebekkaCorissaMerissaRaechelJenaeKateyChassityMiesha

Sibling names for Karisa

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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