Clarissia
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Clarissia has been given to 69 babies in the U.S. since 1958. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1975, with 8 recorded.
Babies named Clarissia, 1991
1 in 487,000
Clarissia 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Clarissia?
Clarissia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1991, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1991
- 1 in 487,000
- 8 of 3,892,928 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 234,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1991
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 337,298 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Clarissia sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1991 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 337,298 children born in 1991 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Clarissia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Clarissias were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Clarissia was born before 1975 — so the typical Clarissia is around 50 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 27.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 84.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 69
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 27.5% of all recorded uses (19).
Is Clarissia 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1975 (8)
- Years since peak
- 50
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 21.7% average annual change
Spellings of Clarissia
Clarissia is not the most common spelling — Clarissa is, with 38.2% against Clarissia's 0.07%.
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.
Clarissia around the world
Where Clarissia 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.
- France1999–1999#3,837in 1999
- South Australia1989–1989#692in 1989
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Clarissia by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Clarissia
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Clarissia
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.