Clarisa

Where Clarisa comes from

The dictionaries list Clarisa as a given name — a female given name, variant of Clarissa — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1911
    First appearance
    #2,463 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1981
    Clarisa Fernández born
    Argentine tennis player
  3. 1984
    Clarisa Huber born
    Argentinian footballer
  4. 1994
    Peak, #664
    323 babies named Clarisa — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1995
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,273.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name, variant of Clarissa.
Namesakes
  • Clarisa Fernández · Argentine tennis player, born 1981
  • Clarisa Huber · Argentinian footballer, born 1984
  • Clarisa Sagardía · Argentinian volleyball player, born 1989
  • Clarisa Hardy · Argentinian-born Chilean politician, anthropologist and psychologist, born 1945
  • Clarisa Navas · screenwriter, born 1989

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.