Carissa
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Amada, querida
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kɑˈɹisə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Carissa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 13K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 13K
- CACanada≈1 in 24K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 431 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
≈37,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Amada, querida
Sources 1
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Carissa, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Carissa 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Carissa | 8 |
| US United States | — | 25,327 | 1 in 13K | 25K | Carissa | 431 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Carissa | 81 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 4 | Carissa | 146 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 24K | 1 | Carissa | 132 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Carissa | 47 |
| NZ New Zealand | #976 | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 25K | 16 | Carissa | 58 |
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; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Carissa 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.
In Latin, an artful woman
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Karisas
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Carissa Wilkesb. 1986NZNew Zealand health psychologist and cyclist
- Carissa Vélizb. 1986GBBritish-Mexican-Spanish philosopher
- Carissa Capobiancob. 1988USactress
- Carissa Turnerb. 1989GBbadminton player
- Carissa Mooreb. 1992USNative Hawaiian-American surfer
- Cassie Millerb. 1995USnot in their usual nameAmerican soccer player
- Carissa Springettb. 1998THThai actress
- Carissa Norstenb. 2003CACanadian rugby union and sevens player
- Carissa Yipb. 2003USAmerican chess player
- Carissa Blossomsactress
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)
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 45 sources across 29 countries.
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
- What does the name Carissa mean, and where does it come from?
- Amada, querida Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado.
- What are other forms of the name Carissa?
- In the etymology graph, Karissa, Charissa and Charisma are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Charis.
- How do you pronounce Carissa?
- A machine transcription gives /kɑˈɹisə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Carissa a male or female name?
- Carissa 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.
- In which country does Carissa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 37 thousand people named Carissa in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled carissa.
- How common is the name Carissa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 25,327 people named Carissa in 2020, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
- How common is Carissa compared with other names?
- In New Zealand, Carissa is the 976th most common given name of 26,737 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Carissa?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/carissaThe 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, “Carissa” — the 976th most common given name in New Zealand. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.