Corissa
Feminine
The doubled s in this name has been imported from elsewhere. Cora and Corinne, the two obvious fronts it could be built on, have no s at all between them; the letter arrives with the ending, borrowed from a family of names where it belongs to the word, and is then doubled because that is how those names look.
How old is the name Corissa?
Corissa first appears in US birth records in 1964 — 61 years ago. The typical Corissa alive today was born around 1990, making them about 35 years old. About 2,000 people named Corissa are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Corissa most popular?
Corissa peaked in 1988, reaching #1521 nationally. See the whole 1988 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Cora to Corissa
The story of Corissa
The pattern this name follows was itself very new when it was followed. Marissa, the model for most of these, is a twentieth-century coinage with no medieval history and no clear parent, and it became popular quickly enough that other names were built to rhyme with it within a generation. So this is a name assembled on the template of a name that was assembled — the second story of a building whose ground floor went up in living memory. That is not unusual in American naming and it is worth stating plainly, because the ending gives an impression of antiquity that nothing behind it supports.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The front may be Cora or Corinne and the ending contributes no sense of its own. With the front unresolved and the back meaningless, no honest reading can be assembled.
How the name formed
- Cora
- Corissa
Pronouncing Corissa
kuh-RISS-uh
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. The doubled s keeps the middle vowel short, which is the one thing it genuinely does.
Nicknames for Corissa
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1964
- Most girls named
- 1990101 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1521reached in 1988
- Change vs 2019
- −12.5%7 in 2020, from 8
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Corissas among us
people named Corissa are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Corissa sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Cora sits inside it as a short form with real history behind it.
- The rhythm is even and the name is comfortable to say at speed.
- It sounds established even though it is not.
- No meaning can be given honestly, whatever other pages assert.
- Corissa and Karissa both appear and the spelling gets queried.
- The ending suggests an antiquity the name does not have.
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Frequently asked
- How many Corissas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,000 people named Corissa are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Corissa in 2025?
- Corissa is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Corissa with classmates?
- Corissa will almost certainly be the only one in school.
More C names
The most-given names starting with C, all years combined.
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