Clarrissa
Clarrissa was last recorded in 2004, when 9 babies were given it; 384 Americans have been recorded with it between 1907 and 2004 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Clarrissa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Clarrissa?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,876, in 2004; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
17 babies in 1994, the peak
Clarrissa peaked in 1994, when 17 girls were given it, #5,486 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 9 | #10,876 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,183 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,409 | 5.0 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,327 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,249 | 7.7 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,347 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,708 | 5.7 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,175 | 5.2 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,693 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,715 | 7.4 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 17 | #5,486 | 9.5 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,331 | 7.7 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,771 | 8.7 |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,002 | 8.0 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,002 | 5.3 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,223 | 7.1 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,375 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,491 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,836 | 7.0 |
| 1985 | 15 | #4,897 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,721 | 3.0 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,199 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 9 | #6,994 | 5.3 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,325 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,495 | 3.1 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,445 | 5.9 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,726 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,417 | 6.8 |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,727 | 4.2 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,211 | 3.4 |
| 1967 | 5 | #6,970 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 8 | #4,941 | 4.7 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,573 | 3.7 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,383 | 3.5 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,516 | 2.5 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,406 | 2.5 |
| 1958 | 7 | #4,981 | 3.5 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,364 | 2.9 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,208 | 4.0 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,149 | 4.2 |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,094 | 5.7 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,128 | 15.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Clarrissa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Clarrissa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 42 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Clarrissa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Clarrissa, and how old are they?
An estimated 346 Americans named Clarrissa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 30 and 46. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 354 people named Clarrissa (354 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 351 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Clarrissa?
Clarrissa is a less common spelling of Clarissa: SSA has recorded 384 Clarrissa and 40,505 Clarissa since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 49,898 babies since 1880, Clarrissa is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 274 babies recorded by SSA was a Clarrissa (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Clarrissa
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 Clarrissa and names like it
- Compare Clarrissa and ClarissaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sClarrissa peaked in 1994.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Clarrissa since 1910.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Clarrissa.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Clarrissa alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.