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Carisa

Recorded 1958–2021 · United States

Carisa was most popular in 1977, when 200 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,337 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 3,025 people named Carisa.

Most popular in1977
Rank that year#1,337
Births that year200
Total since 18803,025
Given to100% girls
Alive today~2,000
Median age46

Carisa over time

18802025
Births per year. The dot marks Carisa’s peak in 1977. Gaps are years the SSA suppressed, which it does for any name given to fewer than five babies.

How old is the name Carisa?

Carisa first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1958, which makes it about 67 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 62 of the 68 years since.

How many people are named Carisa?

The Social Security Administration has recorded 3,025 American births named Carisa between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 2,908 are estimated to be alive today.

How many babies were named Carisa in 2025?

Carisa was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.

Is Carisa getting more or less popular?

Carisa is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 5 births a year across 2021–2025 against 8 a year a decade earlier — at these counts a single baby moves the percentage, and any year under five births is withheld at source.

Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.

Is Carisa a boy’s or a girl’s name?

Across the whole record Carisa is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 3,025 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 100% girls and 0% boys.

Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.

How old is someone named Carisa?

Roughly 2,908 Americans named Carisa are alive today — 96% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 46 years old, and half are between 36 and 51.

An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.

Where Carisa is most concentrated

How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.

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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org