Meaning not yet researched.
Clarisa: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 21 in 2025. Its best rank was #665 in 1994.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #665 in 1994; #5,758 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Clarisa in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,758 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1994, at #665.
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Clarisa: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 21 girls in 2025. Peak: #665 in 1994 · most girls in one year: 323 (1994).
In 2025, 21 US girls were named Clarisa, making it the 5,758th most common girls’ name of the year, up 3,939 places from #9,697 in 2024. That is 11 more than the 10 girls named Clarisa in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #665, reached in 1994. That year also had the most girls given the name: 323. For comparison, it was #4,752 in 2015 and #4,829 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Clarisa in 85 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1911 with 5 babies. In all, 3,193 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 1,091 babies named Clarisa.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 218 US girls were named Clarisa; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 37. In 2025 that was about 1 in 76,537 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Clarissa (40,505 babies since 1880), Clarice (25,570 babies since 1880) and Klarissa (2,877 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Klarrisa and Klariza are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Klarrisa (11), Klariza (11).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Clarisa in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,758 | — | — |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,697 | — | — |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,409 | — | — |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,777 | — | — |
| 2021 | 16 | #7,031 | — | — |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,697 | — | — |
| 2019 | 30 | #4,569 | — | — |
| 2018 | 33 | #4,257 | — | — |
| 2017 | 29 | #4,722 | — | — |
| 2016 | 37 | #4,012 | — | — |
| 2015 | 29 | #4,752 | — | — |
| 2014 | 26 | #5,193 | — | — |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,065 | — | — |
| 2012 | 39 | #3,938 | — | — |
| 2011 | 26 | #5,242 | — | — |
| 2010 | 50 | #3,262 | — | — |
| 2009 | 43 | #3,688 | — | — |
| 2008 | 59 | #2,964 | — | — |
| 2007 | 43 | #3,730 | — | — |
| 2006 | 63 | #2,785 | — | — |
| 2005 | 80 | #2,260 | — | — |
| 2004 | 84 | #2,136 | — | — |
| 2003 | 76 | #2,244 | — | — |
| 2002 | 78 | #2,148 | — | — |
| 2001 | 84 | #2,015 | — | — |
| 2000 | 77 | #2,110 | — | — |
| 1999 | 83 | #1,898 | — | — |
| 1998 | 98 | #1,647 | — | — |
| 1997 | 90 | #1,720 | — | — |
| 1996 | 102 | #1,551 | — | — |
| 1995 | 132 | #1,274 | — | — |
| 1994 | 323 | #665 | — | — |
| 1993 | 96 | #1,593 | — | — |
| 1992 | 67 | #2,038 | — | — |
| 1991 | 51 | #2,455 | — | — |
| 1990 | 49 | #2,467 | — | — |
| 1989 | 43 | #2,624 | — | — |
| 1988 | 39 | #2,706 | — | — |
| 1987 | 39 | #2,583 | — | — |
| 1986 | 32 | #2,920 | — | — |
| 1985 | 39 | #2,492 | — | — |
| 1984 | 33 | #2,740 | — | — |
| 1983 | 38 | #2,438 | — | — |
| 1982 | 53 | #1,969 | — | — |
| 1981 | 32 | #2,792 | — | — |
| 1980 | 45 | #2,222 | — | — |
| 1979 | 31 | #2,805 | — | — |
| 1978 | 35 | #2,481 | — | — |
| 1977 | 40 | #2,264 | — | — |
| 1976 | 45 | #1,974 | — | — |
| 1975 | 44 | #1,994 | — | — |
| 1974 | 38 | #2,139 | — | — |
| 1973 | 30 | #2,464 | — | — |
| 1972 | 28 | #2,534 | — | — |
| 1971 | 23 | #2,974 | — | — |
| 1970 | 19 | #3,326 | — | — |
| 1969 | 13 | #3,986 | — | — |
| 1968 | 15 | #3,477 | — | — |
| 1967 | 13 | #3,693 | — | — |
| 1966 | 14 | #3,430 | — | — |
| 1965 | 22 | #2,614 | — | — |
| 1964 | 15 | #3,397 | — | — |
| 1963 | 18 | #2,977 | — | — |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,587 | — | — |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,303 | — | — |
| 1960 | 13 | #3,535 | — | — |
| 1959 | 13 | #3,465 | — | — |
| 1958 | 16 | #2,987 | — | — |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,264 | — | — |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,217 | — | — |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,824 | — | — |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,739 | — | — |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,802 | — | — |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,692 | — | — |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,829 | — | — |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,082 | — | — |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,361 | — | — |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,719 | — | — |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,156 | — | — |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,936 | — | — |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,971 | — | — |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,474 | — | — |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,545 | — | — |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,568 | — | — |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,537 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).