Carisa

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Griego Charisia, de charis ‘belleza, gracia, amabilidad’

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/kɑɹisə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Carisa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 121K(measured from records)
  • GYGuyana1 in 375K
  • BRBrazil1 in 2.3M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

2,738 people, 2020

Sources
20 (measured from records)

Reference-verified

1 in 121K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Spanish

Griego Charisia, de charis ‘belleza, gracia, amabilidad’.

Sources 1

  • Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

Where in the world(measured from records)

Carisa counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Carisa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2,7381 in 121K2.7KCarisa20
BR Brazil941 in 2.3M128——
NL Netherlands61 in 2.9M6——
GY Guyana21 in 375K2——
CR Costa Rica21 in 2.5M2——

2,738 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Carisa is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Thai given name12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, Philippines, United States, Laos

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written Charisa, ชาริสา, ชริษา, ชริสา, ชารสา

48 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Carisa is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Belleza, amabilidad

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

  • In ist, caress

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

  • Carisa Hendrixb. 1987CACanadian stunt performer, magician, and character comedienne

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalHi Carisa,

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 25 sources across 18 countries.

Official registers attesting Carisa
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202.7K#6,005
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1977200—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1978194—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1979186—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1976166—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1975161—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1974132—
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—128#18,916
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—112#34,425
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1980110—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202294—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—93#43,073

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Carisa?
A machine transcription gives /kɑɹisə/ (IPA) for English.
Is Carisa a male or female name?
Carisa is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Carisa mean?
Recorded meaning: Griego Charisia, de charis ‘belleza, gracia, amabilidad’.
In which country does Carisa have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 2.7 thousand people named Carisa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled carisa.
Where is Carisa most common?
Carisa is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 121 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Carisa?
In the United States, the national register counted 2,738 people named Carisa in 2020, about 1 in 121 thousand residents.

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The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.

About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Carisa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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