Charissa Chamorro is an American clinical psychologist, actress, and television personality. She is of Chilean heritage. She specializes in the treatment of anxiety, depression and sleep-related issues.
Charissa Panuve is a Tongan swimmer. She represented Tonga at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships held in Gwangju, South Korea. She competed in the women's 100 metre freestyle and women's 200 metre freestyle events.
Charissa Tansomboon is Thai-American former figure skater who competed internationally for Thailand. Her parents moved to the U.S. from Thailand just before she was born. She is the 2005 Thai national platinum medalist and is a two-season competitor on the Junior Grand Prix circuit.
But I like it, my name is Charissa. And I am not common, I am smart. And I like names ended with “a”. But it is fine if you don’t like it, everybody is different.
Charissa Thompson is an American television host and sportscaster with Fox Sports 1 and NBC. She is one of the co-hosts on for the syndicated entertainment news show Extra. Previously, Thompson worked for Fox Sports in her first stint, and Versus, as well as for GSN and the Big Ten Network. She was the co-host of SportsNation along with Marcellus Wiley until her departure for Fox Sports in June 2013.[2] She became the host of Fox Sports Live on the new Fox Sports 1 network when it debuted on August 17, 2013 (the first day of Fox Sports 1) at 11pm.
My name is Charissa, but my family decided to pronounce it differently, so it sounds like sha-ree-sa. I wish my grandmother had seen this page before she thought of it.
― Anonymous User 11/18/2015
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In Greek mythology 3 goddesses of charm and beauty were called the Charites. They were daughters of Zeus. Sometimes there is just one called Charis.
• https://nl.wiktionary.org/wiki/Charissa (in Dutch)
• https://nl.forvo.com/search/Charissa/nl/ (in Dutch)
• https://youtu.be/k_mydXJPXmw (in Dutch; the name is said at 0:00)
• https://youtu.be/IEZXfQ34KpM (in Dutch; the name is said at 0:00)
Converted to IPA, it should be: /ʃa:.'rɪ.sa:/ [noted -ed]