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Girl

Carissa

As a girl's name, Carissa is understood to mean "grace". It is not as common as it was in the 1990s, though it has not disappeared. Today, it is comfortably in the mainstream in the registry. Across the twelve decades this registry covers, it appears in 8 of them.

GreekGreek "charis"
EtymologyMeaning "grace"
Births by decade
1900s
0
1910s
0
1920s
0
1930s
0
1940s
5
1950s
71
1960s
505
1970s
3,635
1980s
7,638
1990s
8,820
2000s
5,565
2010s
1,667
Peaked in the 1990s · 27,906 total U.S. births since 1900