Clarissa

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Clarissa: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Clarissa: Recorded since 1984, it reached #301 in 1998, and it stood at #1,603 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
44times a registrar ranked it
41years from first to last
#301highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#410
1997	#443
1998	#628
1999	#663
2000	#625
2001	#765
2002	#679
2003	#855
2004	#929
2005	#1243
2006	#1087
2007	#1234
2008	#995
2009	#1365
2010	#1150
2011	#1489
2012	#1297
2013	#1098
2014	#1702
2015	#1168
2016	#1172
2017	#1457
2018	#1526
2019	#1349
2020	#1687
2021	#1785
2022	#1685
2023	#2689
2024	#1603

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2011: #937 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1489 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1984–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1984
First recorded at #516 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1984 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded1997–2010
Highest recorded position: #301 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 1998 (recorded 1997–2010).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1603 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Clarissa appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 29 ranked years and 832 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Girls, from 1984.

Clarissa across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Clarissa's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#410 (1996)	#410 (1996)	#1603 (2024)	29 of 29	832 (1996–2024)	78 (1996)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#516 (1984)	#391 (1992)	#937 (2011)	11 of 28	40 (1984–2011)	6 (1992)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#358 (1997)	#301 (1998)	#430 (2010)	4 of 14	13 (1997–2010)	4 (1998)

Clarissa by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Clarissa in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	221	4 of 10	55
2000sbusiest	288	10 of 10	29
2010s	245	10 of 10	25
2020s	78	5 of 10	16

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 29 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1997 and 1998, when recorded births fell by 27, from 67 to 40.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Clarissa appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1984 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #301 in Northern Ireland in 1998.

Clarissa's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#1603	19	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2689	9	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1685	17	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1785	16	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1687	17	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1349	23	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1526	20	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1457	22	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1172	29	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1168	29	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1702	17	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1098	32	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1297	25	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1489	20	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1150	28	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1365	21	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#995	31	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1234	22	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1087	25	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1243	19	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#929	28	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#855	30	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#679	39	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#765	32	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#625	41	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#663	36	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#628	40	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#443	67	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#410	78	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	female	#430	3	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	female	#439	3	High	Verified
1998	Northern Ireland	female	#301	4	High	Verified
1997	Northern Ireland	female	#358	3	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#937	3	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#910	3	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#705	4	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	female	#606	3	High	Verified
2000	Republic of Ireland	female	#536	3	High	Verified
1999	Republic of Ireland	female	#392	5	High	Verified
1998	Republic of Ireland	female	#498	3	High	Verified
1996	Republic of Ireland	female	#534	3	High	Verified
1992	Republic of Ireland	female	#391	6	High	Verified
1991	Republic of Ireland	female	#457	4	High	Verified
1984	Republic of Ireland	female	#516	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1984 and 2024, ranked in 32 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #301, first reached in 1998.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 78 births, registered in England and Wales in 1996.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 6 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 13 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Clarence · #1545, 24y
Clarice · #374, 29y
Clarisse · #764, 19y
Clark · #271, 29y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Danni · #301, 28y
Alyson · #300, 36y
Maximillian · #300, 30y
Amber-Rose · #298, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1980s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1980 and 1989.

Amalia · #300, 33y
Ravn · #300, 29y
Daryll · #303, 9y
Dave · #303, 31y

Clarissa was ranked #301 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 1998. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Clarissa and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Clarissa without appearing here.

Clarissa moved ahead of

Katrina Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2689 and #2504 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1603 and #4192.
Kim Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2689 and #2689 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1603 and #4192.
Sinead Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2689 and #1705 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1603 and #3695.
Tayla Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2689 and #1774 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1603 and #3318.

Moved ahead of Clarissa

Paula Compare
In 2010 they stood at #1150 and #1294 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #1489 and #858.
Marilyn Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1685 and #2673 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #2689 and #2063.
Shania Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1685 and #1849 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #2689 and #2063.
Meabh Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1687 and #3447 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #1785 and #1286.

Moved the opposite way to Clarissa

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Clarissa went from #410 to #1603 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Clarissa went from #410 to #1603 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Clarissa went from #410 to #1603 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Clarissa went from #410 to #1603 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Clarissa

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Clarissa went from #410 to #1603 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Clarissa went from #410 to #1603 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Clarissa went from #410 to #1603 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Clarissa went from #410 to #1603 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

What's not yet available

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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1984 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #301 in Northern Ireland in 1998. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Clarissa

Clarissa at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Clarissa across 3 official records

Clarissa by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Clarissa appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

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Also first recorded in the 1980s

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Clarissa at a glance

Clarissa across 3 official records

Clarissa by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Clarissa appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1980s

Names published alongside Clarissa

Clarissa and the names beside it

Clarissa moved ahead of

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