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Clarissa
Pronounced /kləˈɹɪsə/
Rank in 2024
#1,160
Born in 2024
207
Peak year
1995 · #239
Origin
Latin
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 207 girls were named Clarissa, about 1 in every 7,793.
- It peaked in 1995 with 1,201 babies, ranked #239.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 40,268 girls have been named Clarissa since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Clarissa per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- 0.2Gen X1965–80
- 0.5Millennials1981–96
- 0.4Gen Z1997–12
- 0.2Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 1,378 babies, 0.07 per 1,000. Silent: 972 babies, 0.05 per 1,000. Boomers: 2,883 babies, 0.08 per 1,000. Gen X: 5,071 babies, 0.20 per 1,000. Millennials: 13,470 babies, 0.48 per 1,000. Gen Z: 12,092 babies, 0.42 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 4,028 babies, 0.20 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Borrowed from Italian Clarissa, from Medieval Latin Clarissa; see there for more. Popularized in English by Samuel Richardson's 1748 novel Clarissa. Doublet of Clarisse.
- A female given name from Latin or Italian.
- Origin
- Latin
- Say it
- /kləˈɹɪsə/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Clarissa, CC BY-SA 4.0.