Cleris
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/klɛɾiʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cleris is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 296K(measured from records)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 252K
- UYUruguay≈1 in 485K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 45 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 252K (inferred from the name graph)
716 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Venezuela, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cleris counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
716 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Cleris is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, dative/ablative plural of clērus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 870 | #10,057 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 716 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 696 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 652 | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 560 | #6,842 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 499 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 462 | #10,431 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 320 | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 316 | #8,490 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 254 | #10,431 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1970 | 179 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 162 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Cleris?
- A machine transcription gives /klɛɾiʃ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- Is Cleris a male or female name?
- Cleris is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Cleris have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 716 people named Cleris, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cleris.
- How common is the name Cleris?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 716 people named Cleris in 2022, about 1 in 296 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Cleris?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/clerisThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Cleris”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.