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Klarissa

#6,023 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Klarissa has been given to 2,877 babies in the U.S. since 1968. In 2025 it ranked #6,023 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1998, with 121 recorded.

Babies named Klarissa, 2025

1 in 166,000

Klarissa over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Klarissa: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Klarissa means

Klarissa is a given name.

The naming story behind Klarissa

Wikidata records Klarissa as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q75014839, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,877 girls were recorded with the name Klarissa between 1968 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 121 in 1998; its best national rank was #1,423 in 1998.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,878 in 2020 to #6,023 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,950 in 2015 to #6,023 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.

How common is Klarissa?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 166,000
20 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 80,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,023
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
114,896 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Klarissa 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 114,896 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Klarissa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Klarissas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Klarissa was born before 2003 — so the typical Klarissa is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
34.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
57.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,877
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 34.1% of all recorded uses (980).

Is Klarissa 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
−1,062
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,145
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,073
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.34×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
16.5%
Peak was 1998 (121)
Years since peak
27
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,423
1998

Spellings of Klarissa

Klarissa is not the most common spelling — Marissa is, with 45.4% against Klarissa's 1.1%.

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 Klarissa is used

Across 1910–2025, Klarissa was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 47,074 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 14,286
  2. 2California1 in 25,000
  3. 3Arizona1 in 100,000
  4. 4New Mexico1 in 100,000
  5. 5Florida1 in —
  6. 6Illinois1 in —
  7. 7Missouri1 in —
  8. 8New York1 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. Klarissa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Klarissa around the world

Where Klarissa 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
    2003–2011
    #5,785
    in 2011
  • France
    1998–2021
    #5,419
    in 2021
  • Canada
    1994–2012
    #3,249
    in 2012
  • South Australia
    1992–2009
    #818
    in 2009

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

Klarissa in other languages

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

ClariceClarisaKlarysaClarissaClarisseKlarisse

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

Klarissa by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,023
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,145
Best rank ever
#1,423
1998
Peak year
1998
121 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,877
Count in 2025
20

Names similar to Klarissa

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

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Names with a curve like Klarissa

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

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Sibling names for Klarissa

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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