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Clarice

“Variant of Clarissa — Bright, clear, famous” — Latin origin

Girl's name · #3111 in the US (2025) · Timeless

Clarice holds its lane: charted since 1880 and rarely far from where it stands today (#3111 in 2025). About 25,000 girls have carried it along the way. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records.

Around the world: about 1 in 4,100 girls in Belgium (2025) · about 1 in 11,000 girls in Switzerland (2024).

Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 2 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Famous Clarices

• Clarice Lispector — Ukrainian-Brazilian writer, poet, and journalist (1920–1977)
• Clarice Orsini — wife of Lorenzo de' Medici
• Clarice de' Medici — Italian noble (1493-1528)
• Clarice Benini — Italian chess player (1905-1976)
• Clarice Phelps — African American nuclear chemist

In stories & tradition

• Clarice Starling — Hannibal · The Silence of the Lambs
• Clarice (Blink) — Uncanny X-Men · Wolverine and the X-Men
• Clarice — Two Chips and a Miss

What Clarices become

Among 85 notable people named Clarice:

Artists & writers appear 1.51× more often than among typical names — e.g. Clarice Lispector, Ukrainian-Brazilian writer, poet, and journalist (1920–1977).

Similar names: Clarissa · Francisca · Clarity · Eunice · Rosella · Pauline

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