Sharissa
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Modern name, most often borne by Blacks in the United States
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʃeɹɪsə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sharissa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 68K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 375K
- USUnited States1 in 706K
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 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 3 (measured from records)
- 1 in 68K (inferred from the name graph)
471 people, 2020
recorded for this name
Reference-verified
Netherlands
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)
Modern name, most often borne by Blacks in the United States. It is probably an elaborated form of Sharon influenced by names such as Clarissa and pNerissa.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sharissa 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 471 | 1 in 706K | 468 | Sharissa | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | 254 | 1 in 68K | 254 | — | 2 |
| GY Guyana | 2 | 1 in 375K | 2 | — | — |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | — | 3 | — | — |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | — | 3 | — | — |
471 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; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
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 13 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 468 | #21,512 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 254 | #3,103 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 196 | #5,525 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2002 | 33 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1992 | 28 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1989 | 28 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1988 | 25 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1994 | 22 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1990 | 22 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1991 | 21 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2003 | 20 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1987 | 18 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Sharissa come from?
- Modern name, most often borne by Blacks in the United States. It is probably an elaborated form of Sharon influenced by names such as Clarissa and pNerissa. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- How do you pronounce Sharissa?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃeɹɪsə/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Sharissa mean?
- Recorded meaning: Modern name, most often borne by Blacks in the United States.
- Is Sharissa a male or female name?
- Sharissa 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 Sharissa have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 471 people named Sharissa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sharissa.
- Where is Sharissa most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sharissa is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 68 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sharissa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 471 people named Sharissa in 2020, about 1 in 706 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sharissaThe 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, “Sharissa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.