Charissa

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Hari in IN India, ID Indonesia, SE Sweden and 5 more, Haire in US United States, GB United Kingdom, DK Denmark and 1 more, Haris in MY Malaysia, PK Pakistan, CH Switzerland and Charis in FI Finland.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Charissa is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Russian given name57 records spelled Charissa4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Netherlands

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

  Also written Чарисса

43 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Charissa is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In German, weibl. Vom., englische [kæ'nsa] und niederländische Erweiterung von

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

• English: apparently a recent elaboration of CHARIS , perhaps as a result of crossing with CLARISSA .

  as a word

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 77 years between 1949–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• DJ Rapb. 1969GBnot in their usual nameBritish drum and bass, house music and progressive electronic music producer and DJ
• Slongs Dievanongsb. 1978BEnot in their usual nameBelgian singer and rapper
• Charissa van Dipteb. 1981NLDutch dancer
• Charissa Thompsonb. 1982USAmerican sportscaster
• Charissa Nielsenb. 1988USAmerican score vocalist
• Charissa Tansomboonb. 1989THfigure skater
• Charissa Panuveb. 1994TOTongan swimmer
• Charissa Bartonactor
• Charissa FreeseNLresearcher
• Charissa KindBEBelgian performing artist

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 160 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Charissa?

We estimate roughly 198 thousand people bear Charissa (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.

In which country does Charissa have the most bearers?

Charissa is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled hari.

Where is Charissa most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Charissa is densest in Finland — about 1 in 266 people — even though India holds more of our records for it.

How common is Charissa compared with other names?

In India, Charissa is the 148th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.

Is Charissa a male or female name?

Charissa is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Charissa mean?

Recorded meaning: Greek; grace, loving benevolent one