Clarissa

Primarily a girl's name · 100% girls

Meaning

Clarissa is a female given name borrowed from Latin, Italian, and Portuguese,. It is a combination of St. Clare of Assisi's Latin name Clara and the suffix -issa, equivalent to -ess. Clarice is an anglicization of Clarisse, the French form of the same name.

From Wikipedia

Clarissa first appears in the data in 1880 and has been recorded in 144 different years as a girl's name. Its single biggest year was 1995 with 1,201 babies (rank #239 that year). In 2024 it was given to 207 girls (rank #1,159). The name has been declining over the last five years.

Numerology of Clarissa

In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Clarissa yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.

1Destiny numberThe leaderIndependent, pioneering, drawn to going first.Sum of every letter. The overall character a name carries.
11Soul urgeThe visionary (master)Intuitive and inspirational — a heightened 2.Sum of the vowels — what's said to drive the heart.
8PersonalityThe achieverDriven, capable, comfortable wielding influence.Sum of the consonants — the outer impression.

40,289

Total babies (all years)

144

Years in the data

1,201

Peak in a single year

Popularity Over Time — Girls

Famous people named Clarissa

Clarissa Pinkola Estéspsychoanalyst · b. 1945

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Year-by-Year Detail

Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.

Year	Babies	Rank
1880	10	#552
1882	13	#513
1883	17	#466
1884	18	#483
1885	11	#662
1886	15	#574
1887	17	#539
1888	12	#757
1889	20	#573
1890	25	#525
1891	18	#629
1892	18	#690
1893	18	#691
1894	26	#572
1895	22	#661
1896	23	#655
1897	22	#663
1898	26	#634
1899	23	#647
1900	20	#836
1901	33	#534
1902	25	#674
1903	21	#738
1904	32	#601
1905	15	#973
1906	21	#799
1907	28	#712
1908	25	#772
1909	32	#709
1910	27	#834
1911	36	#722
1912	50	#711
1913	38	#855
1914	50	#831
1915	68	#798
1916	79	#771
1917	86	#752
1918	83	#785
1919	79	#793
1920	81	#808
1921	78	#841
1922	68	#888
1923	67	#896
1924	67	#930
1925	68	#895
1926	59	#971
1927	62	#966
1928	57	#984
1929	56	#960
1930	51	#1,033
1931	54	#943
1932	51	#990
1933	49	#986
1934	54	#940
1935	46	#1,019
1936	60	#878
1937	41	#1,118
1938	46	#1,057
1939	60	#907
1940	59	#936
1941	61	#944
1942	54	#1,065
1943	62	#1,006
1944	57	#1,041
1945	54	#1,064
1946	62	#1,079
1947	97	#898
1948	86	#936
1949	88	#952
1950	91	#937
1951	100	#914
1952	99	#931
1953	134	#796
1954	127	#835
1955	158	#755
1956	172	#738
1957	182	#739
1958	159	#797
1959	180	#758
1960	204	#713
1961	237	#670
1962	233	#667
1963	211	#697
1964	263	#623
1965	200	#695
1966	222	#644
1967	217	#650
1968	260	#597
1969	276	#599
1970	321	#567
1971	327	#551
1972	305	#547
1973	304	#548
1974	318	#525
1975	378	#489
1976	384	#478
1977	350	#525
1978	364	#514
1979	422	#484
1980	423	#489
1981	524	#418
1982	540	#416
1983	622	#363
1984	635	#363
1985	633	#367
1986	764	#314
1987	697	#345
1988	777	#320
1989	759	#334
1990	853	#322
1991	909	#305
1992	1,140	#244
1993	1,074	#258
1994	1,185	#237
1995	1,201	#239
1996	1,157	#242
1997	1,092	#266
1998	1,005	#301
1999	975	#317
2000	975	#326
2001	952	#325
2002	870	#343
2003	808	#376
2004	852	#367
2005	737	#419
2006	675	#469
2007	644	#502
2008	546	#563
2009	499	#605
2010	530	#550
2011	479	#598
2012	453	#632
2013	396	#705
2014	364	#768
2015	408	#696
2016	454	#646
2017	431	#680
2018	372	#745
2019	378	#747
2020	286	#912
2021	278	#949
2022	245	#1,044
2023	209	#1,158
2024	207	#1,159