Charisse
5,296 recorded births · active 1946–2021
Compare Charisse →Living-age distribution
The median living Charisse is 51. If you meet a Charisse, there's about a 70% chance they're between 36 and 65 years old.
Popularity arc
Peak Charisse: 1971. Down 97% from peak.
Gender balance
Charisse is almost always given to female babies — 100% female.
Rarity
Charisse ranks #4,071 out of 105,966 names ever recorded by the SSA.
Geographic fingerprint
Charisses are 1.1x more common in the Northeast than the national average.
Predictive modeling
Three statistical models, all fit to Charisse's own SSA history plus the historical behavior of every other name in the dataset.
Peak popularity prediction
Charisse's modeled peak was #1,260 in 1971 — its trend isn't projected to beat that.
Not enough continuous recent history to project a peak rank.
Name life-cycle stage
A rule-based classifier over recent growth, momentum, and peak proximity.
Charisse peaked in 1971 and now sits at roughly 3% of that peak, 54 years later — a name that was genuinely common once, now mostly heard from an older generation.
Popularity survival model
Once a name reaches a rank tier, how long does it typically stay there before falling out?
Built from a Kaplan-Meier survival curve: every historical run any name has ever had above this tier, with runs still ongoing today counted as still in progress rather than as an exit.Charisse isn't currently in the Top 100 tier. Estimated chance of entering it in the forecast window: 0%.
If Charisse enters Top 100, chance it's still there after:
Names that do enter Top 100 have historically stayed a median of ~19 years. Based on 668 historical Top 100 runs across every name in the dataset.