Clarissa
Clarissa is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 207 births. Its best rank was 237th, in 1994.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 2070.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 19951,201 births
- Best rank
- #237in 1994
- Since 1880
- 40,268people given the name
The story in the numbers
40,268 girls have been named Clarissa in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1995, with 1,201 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1993, and the 1990s alone account for 26%. It has spent 132 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Clarissa | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 133 | |
| 1890s | 221 | |
| 1900s | 252 | |
| 1910s | 596 | |
| 1920s | 663 | |
| 1930s | 512 | |
| 1940s | 680 | |
| 1950s | 1,402 | |
| 1960s | 2,323 | |
| 1970s | 3,473 | |
| 1980s | 6,374 | |
| 1990s | 10,591 | |
| 2000s | 7,558 | |
| 2010s | 4,265 | |
| 2020s | 1,225 |
In 1995, its biggest year
Clarissa was the 239th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1995 were Jessica, Ashley, Emily, Samantha and Sarah. See all of 1995.
Names that rose and fell with Clarissa
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Emilypeak 1999
- Mollypeak 1991
- Christianapeak 1996
- Marinapeak 1994
- Korinapeak 1995
- Roxanapeak 1991
- Fabiolapeak 1995
- Anapeak 1991
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.