Meaning and history
Charissa is an elaborated form of Charis and was used by Edmund Spenser in his epic poem The Faerie Queene (1590).
20062006: 42 births, rank #3,669
2007: 41 births, rank #3,848
2008: 29 births, rank #5,013
2009: 26 births, rank #5,378
2010: 24 births, rank #5,602
20112011: 29 births, rank #4,807
2012: 26 births, rank #5,253
2013: 19 births, rank #6,462
2014: 31 births, rank #4,544
2015: 27 births, rank #4,981
20162016: 25 births, rank #5,284
2017: 24 births, rank #5,338
2018: 20 births, rank #6,010
2019: 12 births, rank #8,597
2020: 7 births, rank #12,142
20212021: 12 births, rank #8,464
2022: 15 births, rank #7,281
2023: 8 births, rank #11,169
2024: 11 births, rank #8,946
20252025: 8 births, rank #10,917
Charissa moved from #868 to #930 for girls between 1984 and 1986. Its highest annual birth count came in 1980, with 212 births.