Clarissa — #1159 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Clarissa

The Social Security Administration has registered 40,268 babies named Clarissa between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Clarissa currently holds the #1159 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1995, when 1,201 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Clarissa performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 10,591 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Clarissa shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 7,714 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Clarissa in 47 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Clarissa 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 40,268 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.