Meaning not yet researched.
Klarissa: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 20 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,425 in 1998.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,425 in 1998; #6,024 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Klarissa in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,024 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1998, at #1,425.
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Klarissa: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 20 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,425 in 1998 · most girls in one year: 121 (1998).
In 2025, 20 US girls were named Klarissa, making it the 6,024th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,060 places from #4,964 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 27 girls named Klarissa in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,425, reached in 1998. That year also had the most girls given the name: 121. For comparison, it was #2,950 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Klarissa in 52 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1968 with 6 babies. In all, 2,877 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 980 babies named Klarissa.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 362 US girls were named Klarissa; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 58. In 2025 that was about 1 in 80,363 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 Clarisa (3,193 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Klarissa 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 | 20 | #6,024 | — | — |
| 2024 | 27 | #4,964 | — | — |
| 2023 | 38 | #3,947 | — | — |
| 2022 | 22 | #5,735 | — | — |
| 2021 | 29 | #4,684 | — | — |
| 2020 | 37 | #3,879 | — | — |
| 2019 | 41 | #3,693 | — | — |
| 2018 | 38 | #3,892 | — | — |
| 2017 | 52 | #3,116 | — | — |
| 2016 | 58 | #2,926 | — | — |
| 2015 | 59 | #2,950 | — | — |
| 2014 | 60 | #2,872 | — | — |
| 2013 | 59 | #2,886 | — | — |
| 2012 | 76 | #2,440 | — | — |
| 2011 | 74 | #2,471 | — | — |
| 2010 | 87 | #2,230 | — | — |
| 2009 | 98 | #2,083 | — | — |
| 2008 | 96 | #2,116 | — | — |
| 2007 | 117 | #1,821 | — | — |
| 2006 | 100 | #1,996 | — | — |
| 2005 | 87 | #2,133 | — | — |
| 2004 | 99 | #1,899 | — | — |
| 2003 | 80 | #2,179 | — | — |
| 2002 | 89 | #1,976 | — | — |
| 2001 | 105 | #1,723 | — | — |
| 2000 | 109 | #1,626 | — | — |
| 1999 | 118 | #1,469 | — | — |
| 1998 | 121 | #1,425 | — | — |
| 1997 | 102 | #1,577 | — | — |
| 1996 | 87 | #1,729 | — | — |
| 1995 | 96 | #1,582 | — | — |
| 1994 | 84 | #1,747 | — | — |
| 1993 | 76 | #1,874 | — | — |
| 1992 | 93 | #1,637 | — | — |
| 1991 | 64 | #2,099 | — | — |
| 1990 | 44 | #2,671 | — | — |
| 1989 | 42 | #2,692 | — | — |
| 1988 | 44 | #2,463 | — | — |
| 1987 | 27 | #3,376 | — | — |
| 1986 | 24 | #3,597 | — | — |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,842 | — | — |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,698 | — | — |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,439 | — | — |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,345 | — | — |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,099 | — | — |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,078 | — | — |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,162 | — | — |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,651 | — | — |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,175 | — | — |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,895 | — | — |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,503 | — | — |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,614 | — | — |
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).