first name
CLARISSA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 33,186 people named Clarissa, 43.3% reported their origin as Hispanic or Latino, 33.6% as White and 13.1% as Black. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Clarissa peaked in 1995, when 1,201 babies got the name.
At least 40,505 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Clarissa by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #534. The largest share of babies named Clarissa, 33.3%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Clarissa is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Clarissa has been most common in Arizona (3.1×), Texas (2.9×), and New Mexico (2.5×), and least common in Massachusetts (0.27×).
34,763 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Clarissa, most common first.
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