girls:
40.1k births since 1880
#675 (88th percentile)
boys:
21 births since 1985
#4565 (0th percentile)
overall:
40.1k births since 1880
#1238 (84th percentile)
The name Clarissa is the #1,238 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 40,080 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 84.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 84.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #675 (88.2% percentile) for all time with 40,059 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,565 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 21 births since 1985.
Clarissa has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1985 for boys). Birth data for Clarissa is available in 143 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (143 years for girls and 4 years for boys). 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.
The name Clarissa has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Clarissa reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 73.0% percentile (ranked #233) with 569 births per million. The name was most common in 1995, with 625 births per million (ranked 72.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Clarissa ranks #743 for girls (21.6% percentile) with 119 births per million, which is 19.1% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Clarissa reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #753) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 1985, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1994.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Clarissa".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Clarissa. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 50.0% confident that Clarissa is pronounced as kluh-RIH-suh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kler-IH-suh, at 31.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like K L AH0 R IH1 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.
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