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How popular is “Carissa” in the USA?

Number of people named “Carissa” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Carissa” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Carissa” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Carissa” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Carissa” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Carissa” by birth year

This chart shows how “Carissa” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1949 5 0.000001435 5 100%
1952 7 0.000001843 7 100%
1953 8 0.000002076 8 100%
1954 14 0.000003517 14 100%
1955 9 0.000002242 9 100%
1956 10 0.000002425 10 100%
1957 10 0.00000238 10 100%
1958 5 0.00000121 5 100%
1959 8 0.000001924 8 100%
1960 17 0.000004093 17 100%
1961 21 0.00000507 21 100%
1962 19 0.000004708 19 100%
1963 25 0.000006316 25 100%
1964 36 0.00000926 36 100%
1965 68 0.000018756 68 100%
1966 64 0.000018414 64 100%
1967 70 0.000020619 70 100%
1968 74 0.000021904 74 100%
1969 111 0.000031939 111 100%
1970 166 0.000046028 166 100%
1971 207 0.000060308 207 100%
1972 216 0.000068724 216 100%
1973 222 0.000073586 222 100%
1974 270 0.000088816 270 100%
1975 308 0.000102007 308 100%
1976 475 0.000156544 475 100%
1977 532 0.00016748 532 100%
1978 553 0.000174235 553 100%
1979 686 0.000206192 686 100%
1980 725 0.00021048 725 100%
1981 670 0.000193677 670 100%
1982 713 0.000203252 713 100%
1983 738 0.000213089 738 100%
1984 752 0.00021555 752 100%
1985 735 0.000205934 730 5 99%
1986 766 0.000215345 766 100%
1987 734 0.000203571 734 100%
1988 837 0.00022652 837 100%
1989 969 0.000252052 962 7 99%
1990 1106 0.000279824 1106 100%
1991 1109 0.000284705 1109 100%
1992 1156 0.000300942 1156 100%
1993 977 0.000259132 977 100%
1994 904 0.000243164 904 100%
1995 818 0.000223366 818 100%
1996 724 0.000198509 724 100%
1997 659 0.000181756 659 100%
1998 686 0.000186504 686 100%
1999 681 0.00018436 681 100%
2000 685 0.000181222 685 100%
2001 708 0.000189133 708 100%
2002 692 0.000185111 692 100%
2003 648 0.000170422 648 100%
2004 625 0.000163573 625 100%
2005 497 0.000129264 497 100%
2006 502 0.00012689 502 100%
2007 477 0.000119319 477 100%
2008 408 0.000103799 408 100%
2009 326 0.000085336 326 100%
2010 324 0.000087669 324 100%
2011 285 0.000077916 285 100%
2012 265 0.000072456 265 100%
2013 211 0.000057877 211 100%
2014 167 0.000045057 167 100%
2015 164 0.000044313 164 100%
2016 128 0.00003489 128 100%
2017 130 0.000036351 130 100%
2018 98 0.000027873 98 100%
2019 84 0.000024201 84 100%
2020 90 0.000026941 90 100%
2021 71 0.000020957 71 100%
2022 50 0.000014779 50 100%
2023 57 0.000017214 57 100%
2024 45 0.00001352 45 100%

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