Clarisse
Fewer than 40 women in Poland carry it, so meeting one would stick in your memory. A French name with Latin roots, from words for "bright, clear".
Clarisse Pronunciation
What Clarisse means
Where Clarisse comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Clarisse comes from the Latin clarus, meaning bright and clear. French shaped it into the form we read now, and the everyday French adjective clair still holds that light. In Latin clarus also meant famous, so the name once suggested a bright reputation as well. The English word clear grew from the same Latin root.
In French the Poor Clares, the order that formed around Clare of Assisi in the thirteenth century, are called les Clarisses. The name and its meaning, bright and clear, moved together into French speech.
One French bearer makes it concrete. The judoka Clarisse Agbégnénou won six world titles and Olympic gold in Tokyo in 2021. In a Polish class register the name reads as foreign and plain at once. The meaning holds. Clarisse means bright.
How many people are named Clarisse
1 in 663054 women in Poland is named Clarisse. 34 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6827 among female names.
Clarisse as a middle name
Clarisse is a first name for 34 women in Poland and a middle name for another 5, an 87/13 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 3545th, between Cielo (5) and Cloé (5).
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#3543 Chinwe5
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#3544 Cielo5
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#3545 Clarisse5
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#3546 Cloé5
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#3547 Cláudia5