Claris — unisex name

What the Data Says About Claris

The Social Security Administration has registered 990 babies named Claris between 1899 and 2025, spanning 127 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Claris currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2025. The name reached its historical peak in 1918, when 38 babies received it in a single year. Claris is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 77 additional births since 1917.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Claris performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 297 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Claris shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Indiana, which accounts for 11 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Arkansas and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Claris in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Claris in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 990 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.