Clarisa
Clarisa was given to 21 girls in 2025, #5,757 among girls’ names; 3,193 Americans have been recorded with it since 1911 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,050 Americans named Clarisa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 22 and 40.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Clarisa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Clarisa mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Clarisa is “a female given name, variant of Clarissa.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Clarisa?
#5,757 among girls’ names, 2025
Clarisa fell from #4,751 in 2015 to #5,757 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 16.2 to 13.1 per million.
323 babies in 1994, the peak
Clarisa peaked in 1994, when 323 girls were given it, #665 among girls’ names. The 21 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,757 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,692 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,404 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,772 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 16 | #7,026 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,693 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 30 | #4,568 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 33 | #4,256 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 29 | #4,720 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 37 | #4,012 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (85)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 29 | #4,751 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 26 | #5,191 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,062 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 39 | #3,937 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 26 | #5,240 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 50 | #3,261 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 43 | #3,687 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 59 | #2,963 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 43 | #3,729 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 63 | #2,785 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 80 | #2,259 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 84 | #2,134 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 76 | #2,241 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 78 | #2,145 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 84 | #2,011 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 77 | #2,106 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 83 | #1,895 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 98 | #1,645 | 0.06 |
| 1997 | 90 | #1,718 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 102 | #1,549 | 0.06 |
| 1995 | 132 | #1,271 | 0.08 |
| 1994 | 323 | #665 | 0.18 |
| 1993 | 96 | #1,591 | 0.05 |
| 1992 | 67 | #2,033 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 51 | #2,449 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 49 | #2,462 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 43 | #2,619 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 39 | #2,701 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 39 | #2,581 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 32 | #2,919 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 39 | #2,491 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 33 | #2,739 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 38 | #2,437 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 53 | #1,969 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 32 | #2,792 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 45 | #2,222 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 31 | #2,805 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 35 | #2,481 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 40 | #2,264 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 45 | #1,974 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 44 | #1,994 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 38 | #2,139 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 30 | #2,464 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 28 | #2,534 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 23 | #2,974 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 19 | #3,326 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 13 | #3,985 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 15 | #3,476 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 13 | #3,692 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 14 | #3,429 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 22 | #2,613 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 15 | #3,396 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 18 | #2,976 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,586 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,302 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 13 | #3,534 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 13 | #3,464 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 16 | #2,986 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,263 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,216 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,823 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,737 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,800 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,690 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,827 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,080 | under 0.01 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,359 | under 0.01 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,717 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,154 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,934 | under 0.01 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,969 | under 0.01 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,473 | under 0.01 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,543 | under 0.01 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,566 | 0.01 |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,537 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Clarisa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Clarisa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 85 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Clarisa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Clarisa, and how old are they?
3,050 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 3,193 Americans ever recorded as Clarisa. The median Clarisa alive today is 31 years old; half are between 22 and 40.
The 2020 Census counted 3,541 people named Clarisa (3,531 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,992 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 3 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 123 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 426 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,140 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,060 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 292 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Clarisa born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 5 | #3,201 | 1.7× |
Where Clarisa is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Clarisa is most over-represented in Texas: since 1911 it was given 2.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Clarisa with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 50,746 babies since 1880, Clarisa is the second most given (6.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 21 of their 274 babies (7.7%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Clarisa
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 Clarisa and names like it
- Compare Clarisa and ClarissaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sClarisa peaked in 1994.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Clarisa since 1910.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Clarisa.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Clarisa alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.