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Klarissa vs Klaudia

American parents have registered 2,877 Klarissas since 1880, against 1,052 Klaudias. Klarissa is still ahead, with 20 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Klarissa against Klaudia, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Klarissa Klaudia

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 53 years in which either name was published, Klarissa for 51 years and Klaudia for 2 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Klarissa Klaudia
Total US births 2,8771,052
Most in one year 12157
Babies in 2025 2010
Estimated living today 2,8001,000
Median age today 2221
Peak year 19982004
Best rank 1,416th girls2,808th girls
Rank in 2025 5,917th9,457th
First recorded 19681954
Girls / boys 2,877 / 01,052 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Klarissa Klaudia
England and Wales 9882
France 2075

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Klarissa and Klaudia.