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How popular is “Clarissa” in the USA?

Number of people named “Clarissa” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Clarissa” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Clarissa” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Clarissa” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Clarissa” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Clarissa” by birth year

This chart shows how “Clarissa” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 10 0.000049632 10 100%
1882 13 0.000058682 13 100%
1883 17 0.000078361 17 100%
1884 18 0.000073934 18 100%
1885 11 0.000045671 11 100%
1886 15 0.000058751 15 100%
1887 17 0.000068717 17 100%
1888 12 0.00004007 12 100%
1889 20 0.000069217 20 100%
1890 25 0.000082946 25 100%
1891 18 0.000062789 18 100%
1892 18 0.000053832 18 100%
1893 18 0.000055347 18 100%
1894 26 0.000076766 26 100%
1895 22 0.000062674 22 100%
1896 23 0.000064339 23 100%
1897 22 0.000063408 22 100%
1898 26 0.00006816 26 100%
1899 23 0.0000678 23 100%
1900 20 0.000044419 20 100%
1901 33 0.000095428 33 100%
1902 25 0.000064644 25 100%
1903 21 0.000055089 21 100%
1904 32 0.000079309 32 100%
1905 15 0.000035384 15 100%
1906 21 0.000049014 21 100%
1907 28 0.000060165 28 100%
1908 25 0.000051161 25 100%
1909 32 0.000062595 32 100%
1910 27 0.000045708 27 100%
1911 36 0.000055877 36 100%
1912 50 0.000050604 50 100%
1913 38 0.000033418 38 100%
1914 50 0.000035302 50 100%
1915 68 0.000037109 68 100%
1916 79 0.000040839 79 100%
1917 86 0.000042855 86 100%
1918 83 0.000038229 83 100%
1919 79 0.000037436 79 100%
1920 81 0.000035799 81 100%
1921 78 0.000033412 78 100%
1922 68 0.000029705 68 100%
1923 67 0.000029099 67 100%
1924 67 0.000028132 67 100%
1925 68 0.000029143 68 100%
1926 59 0.000025698 59 100%
1927 62 0.000026732 62 100%
1928 57 0.000025211 57 100%
1929 56 0.000025546 56 100%
1930 51 0.000022939 51 100%
1931 54 0.000025661 54 100%
1932 51 0.000024156 51 100%
1933 49 0.000024507 49 100%
1934 54 0.000026001 54 100%
1935 46 0.000022011 46 100%
1936 60 0.00002888 60 100%
1937 41 0.000019243 41 100%
1938 46 0.00002079 46 100%
1939 60 0.00002723 60 100%
1940 59 0.000025622 59 100%
1941 61 0.000025037 61 100%
1942 54 0.000019767 54 100%
1943 62 0.000021966 62 100%
1944 57 0.000021189 57 100%
1945 54 0.000020355 54 100%
1946 62 0.000019403 62 100%
1947 97 0.000026927 97 100%
1948 86 0.000024909 86 100%
1949 88 0.000025253 88 100%
1950 91 0.000025975 91 100%
1951 100 0.000027146 100 100%
1952 99 0.000026066 99 100%
1953 134 0.000034772 134 100%
1954 127 0.000031904 127 100%
1955 158 0.000039352 158 100%
1956 172 0.000041717 172 100%
1957 182 0.000043311 182 100%
1958 159 0.000038462 159 100%
1959 180 0.00004329 180 100%
1960 204 0.000049111 204 100%
1961 237 0.000057215 237 100%
1962 233 0.000057739 233 100%
1963 211 0.000053307 211 100%
1964 263 0.000067651 263 100%
1965 200 0.000055166 200 100%
1966 222 0.000063873 222 100%
1967 217 0.000063919 217 100%
1968 260 0.000076959 260 100%
1969 276 0.000079417 276 100%
1970 321 0.000089006 321 100%
1971 327 0.00009527 327 100%
1972 305 0.000097041 305 100%
1973 304 0.000100766 304 100%
1974 318 0.000104605 318 100%
1975 378 0.000125191 378 100%
1976 384 0.000126553 384 100%
1977 350 0.000110184 350 100%
1978 364 0.000114686 364 100%
1979 422 0.000126841 422 100%
1980 423 0.000122804 423 100%
1981 524 0.000151472 524 100%
1982 540 0.000153936 540 100%
1983 622 0.000179595 622 100%
1984 635 0.000182013 635 100%
1985 639 0.000179036 633 6 98%
1986 764 0.000214783 764 100%
1987 697 0.00019331 697 100%
1988 777 0.000210282 777 100%
1989 764 0.000198728 759 5 99%
1990 858 0.000217079 853 5 99%
1991 909 0.00023336 909 100%
1992 1140 0.000296777 1140 100%
1993 1074 0.00028486 1074 100%
1994 1190 0.000320094 1185 5 99%
1995 1201 0.000327949 1201 100%
1996 1157 0.00031723 1157 100%
1997 1092 0.000301179 1092 100%
1998 1005 0.000273231 1005 100%
1999 975 0.000263951 975 100%
2000 975 0.000257943 975 100%
2001 952 0.000254315 952 100%
2002 870 0.000232727 870 100%
2003 808 0.000212502 808 100%
2004 852 0.000222983 852 100%
2005 737 0.000191685 737 100%
2006 675 0.000170619 675 100%
2007 644 0.000161093 644 100%
2008 546 0.000138908 546 100%
2009 499 0.000130622 499 100%
2010 530 0.000143408 530 100%
2011 479 0.000130953 479 100%
2012 453 0.00012386 453 100%
2013 396 0.000108622 396 100%
2014 364 0.000098209 364 100%
2015 408 0.000110243 408 100%
2016 454 0.00012375 454 100%
2017 431 0.000120519 431 100%
2018 372 0.000105805 372 100%
2019 378 0.000108904 378 100%
2020 286 0.000085614 286 100%
2021 278 0.000082056 278 100%
2022 245 0.000072418 245 100%
2023 209 0.000063119 209 100%
2024 207 0.00006219 207 100%

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