Given name
Claressa
“fame”
Claressa is a variant of Clarice. One Latin interpretation is “fame.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Claressa is a variant of Clarice. One Latin interpretation is “fame.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Claressa is a variant of Clarice. An origin associated with Clarice is Latin.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1928. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Claressa through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 418
- 0 boys · 418 girls
- Most popular year
- 1983
- 18 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 9 in 2005. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 18 in 1983. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 397 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Claressa’s family of names
In English usage, Claressa has a related form in Clarissa. Claressa has a related form in Clarice.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Claressa
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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