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Clarisse

#5,758 in 2025Girls' name

Poor Clare

Clarisse has been given to 1,701 babies in the U.S. since 1899. In 2025 it ranked #5,758 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2002, with 45 recorded.

Babies named Clarisse, 2025

1 in 158,000

Clarisse over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Clarisse: meaning, origin, and history

Poor Clare

French

What Clarisse means

Clarisse means “Poor Clare”, associated with Clarissa.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from French Clarisse, from Italian Clarissa, from Medieval Latin Clarissa (“Poor Clare”); see there for more. Doublet of Clarissa and Clarice.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Clarisse (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Clarisse is used in English and French. Its origins include French.

Clarisse comes through French Clarisse, Italian Clarissa and Medieval Latin Clarissa.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Clarissa and Clarice.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Clarisse is pronounced /kləˈriːs/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,701 girls were recorded with the name Clarisse between 1899 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 45 in 2002; its best national rank was #1,435 in 1899.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,515 in 2020 to #5,758 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,352 in 2015 to #5,758 in 2025.

How common is Clarisse?

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
#5,758
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
109,425 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Clarisse 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 Clarisse. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Clarisses were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Clarisse was born before 1987 — so the typical Clarisse is around 38 today.

Median birth year
1987
About 38 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
16.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
32.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,248
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Choose a decade

2000s — 16.3% of all recorded uses (278).

Is Clarisse 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
−712
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−243
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,594
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.31×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
46.7%
Peak was 2002 (45)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,435
1899

Spellings of Clarisse

Clarisse is not the most common spelling — Clarissa is, with 27.9% against Clarisse's 1.2%.

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 Clarisse is used

Across 1910–2025, Clarisse was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 193,049 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Rhode Island1 in 100,000
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5Massachusetts1 in —
  6. 6New York1 in —
  7. 7Texas1 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. Clarisse has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Clarisse around the world

Where Clarisse 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
    1996–2021
    #5,581
    in 2021
  • Scotland
    1997–1997
    #557
    in 1997
  • Ireland
    2006–2006
    #764
    in 2006
  • France
    1900–2025
    #424
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2023
    #2,049
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1994–2004
    #700
    in 2004

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Clarisse by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,758
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 243
Best rank ever
#1,435
1899
Peak year
2002
45 that year
First recorded
1899
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,701
Count in 2025
21

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

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Sibling names for Clarisse

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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