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Clarisa

#5,757 in 2025Girls' name

Poor Clare, through Clarissa

Clarisa has been given to 3,193 babies in the U.S. since 1911. In 2025 it ranked #5,757 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1994, with 323 recorded.

Babies named Clarisa, 2025

1 in 158,000

Clarisa over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Clarisa: meaning, origin, and history

Poor Clare, through Clarissa

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Clarisa means

Clarisa belongs to the name family reached through Clarisa → Clarissa → Clarissa → Clarice. Its meaning is “Poor Clare”.

Origin, language, and formation

Clarisa is used in English and Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Clarissa, Clarice and Clara.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,193 girls were recorded with the name Clarisa between 1911 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 323 in 1994; its best national rank was #665 in 1994.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,693 in 2020 to #5,757 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,751 in 2015 to #5,757 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Clarisa?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 158,000
21 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 76,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,757
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
109,425 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Clarisa sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 109,425 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Clarisa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Clarisas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Clarisa was born before 1995 — so the typical Clarisa is around 30 today.

Median birth year
1995
About 30 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
34.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
31.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,135
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Choose a decade

1990s — 34.2% of all recorded uses (1,091).

Is Clarisa 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
+3,935
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+936
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,006
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.72×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
6.5%
Peak was 1994 (323)
Years since peak
31
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#665
1994

Spellings of Clarisa

Clarisa is not the most common spelling — Clara is, with 55.8% against Clarisa's 0.59%.

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 Clarisa is used

Across 1910–2025, Clarisa was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 48,332 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 20,000
  2. 2California1 in 25,000
  3. 3Arizona1 in 33,333
  4. 4Florida1 in 100,000
  5. 5Nevada1 in 100,000
  6. 6New York1 in 100,000
  7. 7Oregon1 in 100,000
  8. 8Colorado1 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. Clarisa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Clarisa around the world

Where Clarisa 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 & Wales
    2004–2004
    #4,598
    in 2004

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Notable people named Clarisa

People whose public names include Clarisa, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Clarisa in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Clarisa. Linked forms have their own page here.

CarlissClariceKlarysaClarissaClarisseKlarissaKlarisse

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Clarisa by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,757
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 936
Best rank ever
#665
1994
Peak year
1994
323 that year
First recorded
1911
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,193
Count in 2025
21

Names similar to Clarisa

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Clarisa

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Clarisa, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Clarisa

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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