Claris
#15,423 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Claris has been given to 1,067 babies in the U.S. since 1899. In 2025 it ranked #15,423 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1918, with 38 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 93% girls, 7% boys all-time.
Babies named Claris, 2025
1 in 663,000
Claris over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Claris over time
In 2025, Claris went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Claris?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 321,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #15,423
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Claris sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Claris. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Clariss were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Claris was born before 1927 — so the typical Claris is around 98 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 30.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 3.4%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 78
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 30.0% of all recorded uses (297).
Is Claris rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +208
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 13.2%
- Peak was 1918 (38)
- Years since peak
- 107
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 49.3% average annual change
Spellings of Claris
Claris is not the most common spelling — Clara is, with 55.1% against Claris's 0.18%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Claris is used
Across 1910–2025, Claris was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 835,684 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Arkansas1 in —
- 2California1 in —
- 3Indiana1 in —
- 4Kentucky1 in —
- 5West Virginia1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Claris has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Claris around the world
Where Claris ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2010–2010#4,688in 2010
- France2003–2019#7,068in 2019
- South Australia2010–2010#801in 2010
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Claris by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Claris
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Claris
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.