Klarissa
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- kla-RIS-a
- Origin
- Latin
- US rank, 2025
- #5,916 for girls
Klarissa is a girls' name of Latin origin, meaning “bright, clear”. In 2025 it ranked 5,916th for girls in the US (20 babies).
What does Klarissa mean?
Latin: spelling of Clarissa; Latinate elaboration of Clara
“bright, clear”
Samuel Richardson's novel Clarissa (1748), one of the longest in English, made the name famous.
Meaning borrowed from Clarissa. More on Wiktionary.
Is Klarissa a girl's or a boy's name?
Klarissa is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 20 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Klarissa in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #5,916among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 20about 1 in 80,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 27% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 20 girls in the US were named Klarissa, making it the 5,916th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,840th. Its busiest year was 1998, with 121 girls. It first appears in the records in 1968.
2025 had fewer girls named Klarissa than any year since 1985.
Half of all the girls named Klarissa in the US since 1880 were born between 1996 and 2010, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 253 girls in the US were given Klarissa or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #930, up from #5,916 for this spelling alone.
Klarissa in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #5,916 |
| 2024 | 27 | #4,890 |
| 2023 | 38 | #3,909 |
| 2022 | 22 | #5,635 |
| 2021 | 29 | #4,603 |
| 2020 | 37 | #3,840 |
| 2019 | 41 | #3,664 |
| 2018 | 38 | #3,852 |
| 2017 | 52 | #3,091 |
| 2016 | 58 | #2,902 |
| 2015 | 59 | #2,927 |
| 2014 | 60 | #2,841 |
| 2013 | 59 | #2,869 |
| 2012 | 76 | #2,426 |
| 2011 | 74 | #2,453 |
| 2010 | 87 | #2,220 |
| 2009 | 98 | #2,076 |
| 2008 | 96 | #2,106 |
| 2007 | 117 | #1,815 |
| 2006 | 100 | #1,988 |
| 2005 | 87 | #2,121 |
| 2004 | 99 | #1,894 |
| 2003 | 80 | #2,164 |
| 2002 | 89 | #1,966 |
| 2001 | 105 | #1,710 |
| 2000 | 109 | #1,615 |
| 1999 | 118 | #1,459 |
| 1998 | 121 | #1,414 |
| 1997 | 102 | #1,572 |
| 1996 | 87 | #1,720 |
| 1995 | 96 | #1,572 |
| 1994 | 84 | #1,739 |
| 1993 | 76 | #1,861 |
| 1992 | 93 | #1,627 |
| 1991 | 64 | #2,086 |
| 1990 | 44 | #2,635 |
| 1989 | 42 | #2,652 |
| 1988 | 44 | #2,442 |
| 1987 | 27 | #3,328 |
| 1986 | 24 | #3,552 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,676 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,538 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,210 |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,514 |
| 1981 | 11 | #5,884 |
| 1980 | 9 | #6,788 |
| 1979 | 0 | – |
| 1978 | 10 | #5,957 |
| 1977 | 0 | – |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,154 |
| 1975 | 0 | – |
| 1974 | 6 | #7,678 |
| 1973 | 0 | – |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,290 |
| 1971 | 0 | – |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,069 |
| 1969 | 0 | – |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,244 |
Nicknames for Klarissa
Names like Klarissa
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Camila Serena Mariana Tiana Ximena Viviana Paulina Liana Luciana Alora Liliana Ariana
Other spellings of Klarissa
Names related to Klarissa
More Latin names
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Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Klarissa: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/klarissa, updated 20 October 2026.