Clairessa

girls:

99 births since 1962

#5617 (2nd percentile)

overall:

99 births since 1962

#7640 (1st percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Clairessa is the #7,640 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 99 recorded births since 1962. This represents the 1.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,617 (1.7% percentile) for all time with 99 births since 1962.

Clairessa first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1962 (first recorded for girls in 1962). Birth data for Clairessa is available in 15 out of the 44 years between 1962 and 2005. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.

For girls, Clairessa reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #819) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1986, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2005.

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Clairessa".

1962 2005 19622005

Key Statistics

Total Births
99
Peak Births
10
Peak Year
1989
First Recorded
1962
Peak Percentile
0.7%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#819
Current Rank
Female statistics

How to Pronounce Clairessa

Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Clairessa. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 40.0% confident that Clairessa is pronounced as kleh-REH-suh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is klai-REH-suh, at 17.1% confidence, with 3 syllables.

kleh-REH-suh (3 syllables)
40.0% confidence
K L EH0 R EH1 S AH0
klai-REH-suh (3 syllables)
17.1% confidence
K L AY0 R EH1 S AH0
KLEH-reh-suh (3 syllables)
17.1% confidence
K L EH1 R EH0 S AH0
KLAY-reh-suh (3 syllables)
8.6% confidence
K L EY1 R EH0 S AH0
kleh-RIH-suh (3 syllables)
5.7% confidence
K L EH0 R IH1 S AH0
klay-REH-suh (3 syllables)
5.7% confidence
K L EY0 R EH1 S AH0
klai-er-EH-suh (4 syllables)
5.7% confidence
K L AY0 ER0 EH1 S AH0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like K L EH0 R EH1 S AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.

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