Clarice

Where Clarice comes from

Borrowed from French Clarisse, from Italian Clarissa, from Medieval Latin Clarissa (“Poor Clare”); see there for more. Doublet of Clarissa and Clarisse.
— Wiktionary's entry for Clarice
  • French
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1453
    Clarice Orsini born
    wife of Lorenzo de' Medici
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #580 among girls — 9 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1913
    Peak, #258
    319 babies named Clarice — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1920
    Clarice Lispector born
    Ukrainian-Brazilian writer, poet, and journalist
  5. 1961
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #922.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from French.
Namesakes
  • Clarice Lispector · Ukrainian-Brazilian writer, poet, and journalist, 1920–1977
  • Clarice Orsini · wife of Lorenzo de' Medici, 1453–1488
  • Clarice de' Medici · Italian noble, 1489–1528
  • Clarice Benini · Italian chess player, 1905–1976
  • Clarice Phelps · African American nuclear chemist, born 1981

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.