Clarisa
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Derived from Clara; also a medieval French romance character and a nun's name
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 25 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/klaɾisa/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Clarisa is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- NINicaragua≈1 in 4.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina≈1 in 6.3K
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 9K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Argentina (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 199 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Nicaragua, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Derived from Clara; also a medieval French romance character and a nun's name.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Clarisa 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #650 | ≈7,200 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | 18 | Clarisa | 77 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Clarisa | 42 |
| MX Mexico | — | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 33K | 35 | Clarisa | 109 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 9.6K | — | Clarisa | 46 |
| US United States | — | 3,541 | 1 in 94K | 3.5K | Clarisa | 199 |
| NI Nicaragua | #300 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | — | Clarisa | 9 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #548 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 9K | — | Clarisa | 21 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 260 | 1 in 13K | 260 | — | 20 |
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: datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)Clarisa 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 Spanish, Poor Clares nun
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)- Agatha Christieb. 1890GBnot in their usual nameEnglish mystery and detective writer (1890–1976)
- Rosalind Hicksb. 1919GBnot in their usual nameAgatha Christie's daughter (1919–2004)
- Clarissa Pinkola Estésb. 1945USnot in their usual nameAmerican psychoanalyst and writer
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)41 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 25 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Clarisa mean, and where does it come from?
- Derived from Clara; also a medieval French romance character and a nun's name. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- What are other forms of the name Clarisa?
- In the etymology graph, Clarice, Clarissa and Clarisse are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Clarisa?
- In Spanish /klaɾisa/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Clarisa a male or female name?
- Clarisa is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)), Venezuela (asosab) and Spain (INE), among others.
- Which countries have the most people named Clarisa?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.2 thousand people named Clarisa in Argentina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled clarisa. After it come Philippines, Mexico, Peru and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Clarisa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,541 people named Clarisa in 2020, about 1 in 94 thousand residents.
- How common is Clarisa compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Clarisa is the 650th most common given name of 119,825 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Clarisa?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/clarisaThe 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, “Clarisa” — the 650th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.