Meaning not yet researched.
Clarissa: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 212 in 2025. Its best rank was #237 in 1994.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #237 in 1994; #1,114 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Clarissa in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,114 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1994, at #237.
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Clarissa: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 212 girls in 2025. Peak: #237 in 1994 · most girls in one year: 1,201 (1995).
In 2025, 212 US girls were named Clarissa, making it the 1,114th most common girls’ name of the year, up 47 places from #1,161 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 207 girls named Clarissa in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #237, reached in 1994. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,201, in 1995. For comparison, it was #697 in 2015 and #937 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Clarissa in 145 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 10 babies. In all, 40,505 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 10,602 babies named Clarissa.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,075 US girls were named Clarissa; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 455. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,581 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Clarissa ranked highest in California in 2025, at #567 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Clarice (25,570 babies since 1880), Clarisa (3,193 babies since 1880) and Klarissa (2,877 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Clarisse, Clairissa and Claressa are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Cissy and Clara.
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 English, Italian and Portuguese. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Clarisse (1,701), Clairissa (507), Claressa (418), Clarrissa (384), Clarrisa (313), Klarisa (247), Claryssa (220), Klaryssa (208), Clariza (179), Clairessa (99), Claresa (35), Klarysa (15), and more.
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.
Clarissa is listed as a nickname for Clara.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 42 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 57 | #567 | #439 |
| Arizona | 9 | #696 | #439 |
| Texas | 40 | #747 | #450 |
| Illinois | 11 | #817 | #732 |
| Florida | 18 | #879 | #630 |
| Ohio | 8 | #1,051 | #849 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,086 | #1,161 |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,223 | #974 |
| New York | 8 | #1,555 | #896 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 212 | #1,114 | — | — |
| 2024 | 207 | #1,161 | — | — |
| 2023 | 209 | #1,158 | — | — |
| 2022 | 246 | #1,039 | — | — |
| 2021 | 278 | #949 | — | — |
| 2020 | 287 | #911 | — | — |
| 2019 | 378 | #747 | — | — |
| 2018 | 372 | #745 | — | — |
| 2017 | 431 | #680 | — | — |
| 2016 | 455 | #646 | — | — |
| 2015 | 408 | #697 | — | — |
| 2014 | 364 | #768 | — | — |
| 2013 | 396 | #705 | — | — |
| 2012 | 453 | #632 | — | — |
| 2011 | 479 | #598 | — | — |
| 2010 | 530 | #550 | — | — |
| 2009 | 499 | #605 | — | — |
| 2008 | 546 | #563 | — | — |
| 2007 | 644 | #502 | — | — |
| 2006 | 675 | #469 | — | — |
| 2005 | 737 | #419 | — | — |
| 2004 | 852 | #367 | — | — |
| 2003 | 808 | #376 | — | — |
| 2002 | 870 | #343 | — | — |
| 2001 | 952 | #325 | — | — |
| 2000 | 975 | #326 | — | — |
| 1999 | 975 | #317 | — | — |
| 1998 | 1,005 | #301 | — | — |
| 1997 | 1,093 | #266 | — | — |
| 1996 | 1,157 | #242 | — | — |
| 1995 | 1,201 | #239 | — | — |
| 1994 | 1,185 | #237 | 5 | #9,037 |
| 1993 | 1,074 | #258 | — | — |
| 1992 | 1,140 | #244 | — | — |
| 1991 | 909 | #305 | — | — |
| 1990 | 853 | #322 | 5 | #8,336 |
| 1989 | 759 | #334 | 5 | #8,096 |
| 1988 | 777 | #320 | — | — |
| 1987 | 697 | #345 | — | — |
| 1986 | 764 | #314 | — | — |
| 1985 | 633 | #367 | 6 | #5,919 |
| 1984 | 635 | #363 | — | — |
| 1983 | 622 | #363 | — | — |
| 1982 | 540 | #416 | — | — |
| 1981 | 524 | #418 | — | — |
| 1980 | 423 | #489 | — | — |
| 1979 | 422 | #484 | — | — |
| 1978 | 364 | #514 | — | — |
| 1977 | 350 | #525 | — | — |
| 1976 | 384 | #478 | — | — |
| 1975 | 378 | #489 | — | — |
| 1974 | 318 | #525 | — | — |
| 1973 | 304 | #548 | — | — |
| 1972 | 305 | #547 | — | — |
| 1971 | 327 | #551 | — | — |
| 1970 | 321 | #567 | — | — |
| 1969 | 276 | #599 | — | — |
| 1968 | 260 | #597 | — | — |
| 1967 | 217 | #650 | — | — |
| 1966 | 222 | #644 | — | — |
| 1965 | 200 | #695 | — | — |
| 1964 | 262 | #624 | — | — |
| 1963 | 212 | #695 | — | — |
| 1962 | 233 | #668 | — | — |
| 1961 | 237 | #670 | — | — |
| 1960 | 204 | #713 | — | — |
| 1959 | 180 | #758 | — | — |
| 1958 | 159 | #797 | — | — |
| 1957 | 182 | #739 | — | — |
| 1956 | 172 | #738 | — | — |
| 1955 | 158 | #755 | — | — |
| 1954 | 127 | #835 | — | — |
| 1953 | 134 | #796 | — | — |
| 1952 | 99 | #931 | — | — |
| 1951 | 100 | #914 | — | — |
| 1950 | 91 | #937 | — | — |
| 1949 | 88 | #952 | — | — |
| 1948 | 86 | #936 | — | — |
| 1947 | 97 | #898 | — | — |
| 1946 | 62 | #1,079 | — | — |
| 1945 | 54 | #1,064 | — | — |
| 1944 | 57 | #1,041 | — | — |
| 1943 | 62 | #1,006 | — | — |
| 1942 | 54 | #1,065 | — | — |
| 1941 | 61 | #944 | — | — |
| 1940 | 59 | #936 | — | — |
| 1939 | 60 | #907 | — | — |
| 1938 | 46 | #1,057 | — | — |
| 1937 | 41 | #1,118 | — | — |
| 1936 | 60 | #878 | — | — |
| 1935 | 46 | #1,019 | — | — |
| 1934 | 54 | #940 | — | — |
| 1933 | 49 | #986 | — | — |
| 1932 | 51 | #990 | — | — |
| 1931 | 54 | #943 | — | — |
| 1930 | 51 | #1,033 | — | — |
| 1929 | 56 | #960 | — | — |
| 1928 | 57 | #984 | — | — |
| 1927 | 62 | #966 | — | — |
| 1926 | 59 | #971 | — | — |
| 1925 | 68 | #895 | — | — |
| 1924 | 67 | #930 | — | — |
| 1923 | 67 | #896 | — | — |
| 1922 | 68 | #888 | — | — |
| 1921 | 78 | #841 | — | — |
| 1920 | 81 | #808 | — | — |
| 1919 | 79 | #793 | — | — |
| 1918 | 83 | #785 | — | — |
| 1917 | 86 | #752 | — | — |
| 1916 | 79 | #771 | — | — |
| 1915 | 68 | #798 | — | — |
| 1914 | 50 | #831 | — | — |
| 1913 | 38 | #855 | — | — |
| 1912 | 50 | #711 | — | — |
| 1911 | 36 | #722 | — | — |
| 1910 | 27 | #834 | — | — |
| 1909 | 32 | #709 | — | — |
| 1908 | 25 | #772 | — | — |
| 1907 | 28 | #712 | — | — |
| 1906 | 21 | #799 | — | — |
| 1905 | 15 | #973 | — | — |
| 1904 | 32 | #601 | — | — |
| 1903 | 21 | #738 | — | — |
| 1902 | 25 | #674 | — | — |
| 1901 | 33 | #534 | — | — |
| 1900 | 20 | #836 | — | — |
| 1899 | 23 | #647 | — | — |
| 1898 | 26 | #634 | — | — |
| 1897 | 22 | #663 | — | — |
| 1896 | 23 | #655 | — | — |
| 1895 | 22 | #661 | — | — |
| 1894 | 26 | #572 | — | — |
| 1893 | 18 | #691 | — | — |
| 1892 | 18 | #690 | — | — |
| 1891 | 18 | #629 | — | — |
| 1890 | 25 | #525 | — | — |
| 1889 | 20 | #573 | — | — |
| 1888 | 12 | #757 | — | — |
| 1887 | 17 | #539 | — | — |
| 1886 | 15 | #574 | — | — |
| 1885 | 11 | #662 | — | — |
| 1884 | 18 | #483 | — | — |
| 1883 | 17 | #466 | — | — |
| 1882 | 13 | #513 | — | — |
| 1880 | 10 | #552 | — | — |
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).