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Charissa

The name Charissa carries the meaning "Greek charis, grace", with roots in Greek. It peaked back in the 1980s and has been gradually easing since. In the current registry, it is a real rarity. Across the twelve decades this registry covers, it appears in 8 of them.

EtymologyVariant of Carissa
GreekGreek "charis" – "grace"
Births by decade
1900s
0
1910s
0
1920s
0
1930s
0
1940s
6
1950s
201
1960s
360
1970s
1,283
1980s
1,652
1990s
936
2000s
403
2010s
203
Peaked in the 1980s · 5,044 total U.S. births since 1900