Claritza — girls' name
445 babies named Claritza in U.S. Social Security records since 1971, with the highest year being 1994. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
33% of everyone ever named Claritza was born in this single decade.
23 babies were named Claritza in 1994 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Claritza
The Social Security Administration has registered 445 babies named Claritza between 1971 and 2022, spanning 52 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Claritza currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1994, when 23 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Claritza performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 149 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Claritza shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 44 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Claritza in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Claritza 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 445 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.
Claritza at a glance
Last recorded 2022Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Claritza popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2022–1971
- Peak year (1994)
- 23
- Annual births at peak — across 52 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2022.
445 total births across 52 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1994 with 23 births in a single year.
Claritza by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 149 births that decade — 33% of Claritza's all-time total
Claritza decade highlights
- Peak decade 149 births
- Runner-up 148 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Claritza's strongest decade
149 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 33% of all-time use.
Claritza by state
Where Claritza concentrates geographically — total births since 1971
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 44 | 9.9% |
| #2 | New York | | 17 | 3.8% |
| #3 | Texas | | 13 | 2.9% |
44 of 445 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 3 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 9.9% of nationwide
- New York 3.8% of nationwide
- Texas 2.9% of nationwide
Recorded in 3 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 9.9% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1971–2022 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.