Claris
Claris was given to 5 girls in 2025, #15,423 among girls’ names; 1,067 Americans have been recorded with it since 1899 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Claris by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Claris?
#15,423 among girls’ names, 2025
Claris entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #15,423 in 2025.
45 babies in 1918, the peak
Claris peaked in 1918, when 45 babies were given it (38 girls, #1,216 among girls’ names). The 5 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,423 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,524 | 4.3 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,631 | 3.1 |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,818 | 3.2 |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,716 | 2.6 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,553 | 3.3 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,741 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,875 | 2.8 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,736 | 3.6 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,011 | 3.2 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | 8 | #4,082 | 4.4 |
| 1950 | 11 | #3,255 | 6.4 |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,766 | 3.5 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,375 | 2.9 |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,652 | 8.5 |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,456 | 5.7 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,770 | 8.4 |
| 1944 | 19 | #1,973 | 14.3 |
| 1943 | 22 | #1,843 | 15.8 |
| 1942 | 9 | #3,222 | 6.7 |
| 1941 | 16 | #2,107 | 13.2 |
| 1940 | 20 | #1,798 | 17.5 |
| 1939 | 19 | #1,811 | 17.3 |
| 1938 | 22 | #1,658 | 19.9 |
| 1937 | 17 | #1,929 | 16.0 |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,402 | 11.5 |
| 1935 | 28 | #1,384 | 26.7 |
| 1934 | 20 | #1,714 | 19.2 |
| 1933 | 34 | #1,227 | 33.7 |
| 1932 | 27 | #1,457 | 25.3 |
| 1931 | 17 | #1,955 | 16.0 |
| 1930 | 32 | #1,352 | 28.4 |
| 1929 | 28 | #1,453 | 25.1 |
| 1928 | 28 | #1,508 | 24.3 |
| 1927 | 34 | #1,388 | 28.5 |
| 1926 | 30 | #1,484 | 25.3 |
| 1925 | 32 | #1,449 | 26.3 |
| 1924 | 27 | #1,650 | 21.6 |
| 1923 | 25 | #1,686 | 20.7 |
| 1922 | 35 | #1,345 | 29.1 |
| 1921 | 31 | #1,489 | 25.1 |
| 1920 | 27 | #1,591 | 22.5 |
| 1919 | 34 | #1,328 | 30.1 |
| 1918 | 38 | #1,216 | 32.8 |
| 1917 | 23 | #1,611 | 21.3 |
| 1916 | 23 | #1,593 | 22.0 |
| 1915 | 30 | #1,291 | 30.5 |
| 1914 | 17 | #1,610 | 22.3 |
| 1913 | 10 | #2,052 | 16.0 |
| 1912 | 9 | #2,003 | 16.1 |
| 1911 | 7 | #2,000 | 16.7 |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,190 | 15.1 |
| 1909 | 6 | #2,006 | 17.3 |
| 1908 | 8 | #1,566 | 23.9 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,127 | 15.7 |
| 1906 | 5 | #2,004 | 16.9 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,739 | 20.6 |
| 1904 | 5 | #1,936 | 18.2 |
| 1902 | 7 | #1,471 | 26.5 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,724 | 20.9 |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,764 | 20.0 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,647 | 21.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Claris a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,067 Americans recorded as Claris, 93% are girls and 7% boys. In 2025 it went to 5 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Claris: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Claris, and how old are they?
An estimated 195 Americans named Claris and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (18% of everyone recorded); the median is 81 years old and half are between 72 and 87. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 687 people named Claris (637 women and girls, 50 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 277 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Claris rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Claris
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Claris and names like it
- Compare Claris and RhebaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sClaris peaked in 1918.
- Indiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Claris since 1910.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Claris.
- The names of the Silent GenerationMost people named Claris alive today were born 1928-1945.
- Names starting with CMost given first.