Corissa
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 6 babies a year in the US.
Corissa by the numbers
Corissa was given to 6 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 101 babies in 1990, so it is a 1990s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Corissa
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Corissa. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Carissagrace; beloved129 in the US (2017)
- Clarissabright, clear; feminine form of Clarus430 in the US (2017)
- Corinaa form of Corinne; maiden or kore64 in the US (2017)
- Corinnamaiden or girl54 in the US (2017)
- Christafollower of christ; a form of Christina46 in the US (2017)
- Chrissybearer of Christ; diminutive of Christine36 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Corissa
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