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I think it's a tad too sweet. I prefer Clarissa.

I suppose it's a bit better than Cara. Carisa looks incomplete, but where I live, we're familiar with Carissa as a prickly bush with red fruit you can make jam with if the birds don't get them first.

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I don't like the name. Very frilly, without much substance. Nice bush, though.

I have a friend who spells it Karissa, and I much prefer this spelling. I like it, but would probably never use it, though I do love the meaning.

This message was edited 1/17/2016, 6:54 PM

I don't super like it. While a name with consistent use it still strikes as more invented for sound than for meaning. Though the connection to Chares is really neat and I like how it could be used with religious intent if one wanted without weighing your child down with a moniker that will give people religious assumptions.

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Definitely prefer Carissa. With only one S -pass names always make me want to say -"eesa" for the ending.

I knew a Carissa in high school, it's a pretty name. I'm more partial to the Charissa spelling, however.

She'd be getting called Clarissa a lot. The name looks like Clarissa with something missing.

I like it. It's not a favorite but I love the classic feeling of the name and how pretty it sounds. I much prefer the spelling Carissa or Charissa, really don't like Carisa... that spelling reminds me of food or flour or something. I think it's reminding me of harisa with that spelling.

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Anyway, I actually went to school with a Carissa, from elementary to high school and every single year she spent weeks constantly correcting teachers who kept calling her Clarissa. Granted, this was the 90s/early 2000s when the tv show Clarissa was still fresh in everyone's mind lol

I like Carissa. Reminds me of Cassandra but more upfront, prettier.

Karissa is a name I added to my favorites last year. I like the K spelling better, which I don't usually do. Probably because the C spelling reminds me too much of the word caress, which is icky; and also it seems harsher or more casual with a C. But I still like it with a C, just not as much.
I think it's a graceful name, more grown up than Carys, less prissy than Marissa or Clarissa but not as dark as Nerissa. I guess Carissa / Karissa was a fad in the 90s and is now totally over, but I was never aware of it as a fad, so that doesn't bother me.
I wouldn't spell it Carisa because that looks like ka-REES-a to me, not ka-RISS-a.

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I also like Calissa (with a C this time).

This message was edited 1/17/2016, 2:41 PM

Cotton candy. I dread my next visit to the dentist. Bleeaach.

Oh my goodness, about 10 years ago when I first started getting into names, Carissa Rose was my FAVORITE name!! I swore that would be my first daughter's name.

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I still think Carissa is cute, but I don't know... Now the magic has faded lol

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I like the Carissa spelling.

It's ok but I much prefer Clarissa.