Claris
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from Lat clarus 'bright, shining', via claritia; first attested Claricia 1150–60 DC (L)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈkɫɛɹɪs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Claris is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Kenya than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 484K(measured from records)
- KEKenya≈1 in 10K
- GYGuyana1 in 36K
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.
- Kenya (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 146 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Kenya, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Lat clarus 'bright, shining', via claritia; first attested Claricia 1150–60 DC (L)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Where in the world(measured from records)
Claris 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KE Kenya | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Claris | 10 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 224K | — | Claris | 19 |
| US United States | 687 | 1 in 484K | 637 | Claris | 146 |
| PH Philippines | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 233K | — | Claris | 22 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 319K | — | Claris | 8 |
| SG Singapore | ≈97 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Claris | 33 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 109K | — | Claris | 3 |
| UY Uruguay | 24 | 1 in 141K | 24 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 21 | 1 in 36K | 21 | — | 2 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Claris is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Galbūt sudurtinė iš liet. yla (žr. Yla) ir akis
as a nameLietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
In Latin, dative/ablative masculine/feminine/neuter plural of clārus
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Crip Hallb. 1901USnot in their usual nameAmerican politician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
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 45 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 637 | #16,419 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 50 | #16,419 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 24 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 24 | — |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 21 | #573 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1940 | 5 | — |
| UY Uruguay | Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012) | 2012 | 1 | — |
| UY Uruguay | Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012) | 2007 | 1 | — |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Claris mean, and where does it come from?
- from Lat clarus 'bright, shining', via claritia; first attested Claricia 1150–60 DC (L) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Claris?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɫɛɹɪs/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Claris a male or female name?
- Claris is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Claris have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.3 thousand people named Claris in Kenya, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled claris.
- How common is the name Claris?
- In the United States, the national register counted 687 people named Claris in 2020, about 1 in 484 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/clarisThe 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, “Claris”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.