Karisa
Recorded 1961–2024 · United States
Karisa was most popular in 1992, when 161 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,905 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,773 people named Karisa.
Karisa over time
How old is the name Karisa?
Karisa first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1961, which makes it about 64 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 59 of the 65 years since.
How many people are named Karisa?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,773 American births named Karisa 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 2,707 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Karisa in 2025?
Karisa 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 Karisa getting more or less popular?
Karisa is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 6 births a year across 2021–2025 against 18 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 Karisa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Karisa is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 2,773 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 Karisa?
Roughly 2,707 Americans named Karisa are alive today — 98% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 34 years old, and half are between 27 and 42.
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 Karisa 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