Clarisa

girls:

3.2k births since 1911

#3084 (46th percentile)

overall:

3.2k births since 1911

#4842 (37th percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Clarisa is the #4,842 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,161 recorded births since 1911. This represents the 37.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 37.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,084 (46.0% percentile) for all time with 3,161 births since 1911.

Clarisa first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1911 (first recorded for girls in 1911). Birth data for Clarisa is available in 83 out of the 113 years between 1911 and 2023. 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, Clarisa reached its peak popularity in 1994, achieving the 35.5% percentile (ranked #545) with 166 births per million. The name was most common in 1994, with 166 births per million (ranked 35.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Clarisa ranks #944 for girls (0.3% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 2.8% of its peak share of births.

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

1911 2023 19112023

Key Statistics

Total Births
3,161
Peak Births
323
Peak Year
1994
First Recorded
1911
Peak Percentile
35.5%
Current Percentile
0.3%
Peak Rank
#545
Current Rank
#944
Female statistics

How to Pronounce Clarisa

Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Clarisa. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 33.3% confident that Clarisa is pronounced as kluh-REE-suh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is klah-REE-suh, at 23.1% confidence, with 3 syllables.

klah-REE-suh (3 syllables)
23.1% confidence
K L AA0 R IY1 S AH0
kler-EE-suh (3 syllables)
10.3% confidence
K L ER0 IY1 S AH0
klah-RIH-suh (3 syllables)
7.7% confidence
K L AA0 R IH1 S AH0
kler-IH-suh (3 syllables)
5.1% confidence
K L ER0 IH1 S AH0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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About Pronunciation Data

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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 AH0 R IY1 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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