Clarisse
given name · Latin script
Meaning: French form from Latin clarus, via Clara/Clarissa, meaning 'bright, clear'
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- France (INSEE, 2024): listed as female
- Brazil (IBGE, 2022): listed as female
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female
- Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 45 countries · latest register: Þjóðskrá Íslands, 2026
/kla.ʁis/(recorded in a dictionary) French · from Wiktionary
Clarisse is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 7.8K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 80K
- UYUruguay1 in 106K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 95 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.8K (inferred from the name graph)
27,148 people, 2022
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)French form from Latin clarus, via Clara/Clarissa, meaning 'bright, clear'.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Clarisse, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Clarisse 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 27,148 | 1 in 7.8K | 27K | — | 1 |
| US United States | — | 1,800 | 1 in 185K | 1.8K | Clarisse | 95 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 216 | 1 in 80K | 208 | — | 4 |
| ES Spain | — | 84 | 1 in 595K | 84 | Clarisse | 21 |
| SE Sweden | — | 82 | 1 in 124K | 82 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | — | 32 | 1 in 106K | 32 | — | 8 |
| IS Iceland | — | 3 | 1 in 117K | 3 | — | — |
| PY Paraguay | #990 | — | — | — | Clarisse | 15 |
27,148 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); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)Clarisse is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Sainte Claire (1193 ?-1253) fonda l’ordre des clarisses au XIII e siècle sur le modèle de la règle franciscaine.
as a name2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
In French, Dérivé de Clara/Claire, du latin clarus, « clair, brillant ». Fête: 11 août (sainte Claire).
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In French, Du latin clarus, « clair » ; forme dérivée de Claire.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, Du latin clarus, « clair »; fête le 12 août.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In French, Latin clarus « clear, bright ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
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)
- Clarisse Agbegnenoub. 1992FRFrench and Togolese judoka
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)76 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 45 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Clarisse?
- In the etymology graph, Claire, Clarice and Clarissa are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Clarisse?
- It depends on the language: in French /kla.ʁis/ (Wiktionary); in Portuguese /klaɾisi/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Clarisse a male or female name?
- Clarisse is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: France (INSEE, 2024): listed as female; Brazil (IBGE, 2022): listed as female; United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female; Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes. We don't publish a percentage split.
- What does the name Clarisse mean, and where does it come from?
- French form from Latin clarus, via Clara/Clarissa, meaning 'bright, clear'. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- Which countries have the most people named Clarisse?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 27 thousand people named Clarisse, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Netherlands, Spain and Sweden; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Clarisse most common?
- Clarisse is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 7.8 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Clarisse?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 27,148 people named Clarisse in 2022, about 1 in 7.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Clarisse compared with other names?
- In Paraguay, Clarisse is the 990th most common given name of 20,931 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Clarisse?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/clarisseThe 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, “Clarisse” — the 990th most common given name in Paraguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.