as a First Name
Medieval English and French form of the Latin name Claritia. This may have meant ‘fame’ (an abstract derivative of clārus ‘famous’), but as a given name it may have been no more than an arbitrary elaboration of Clara. It was borne by a character who features in some versions of the medieval romances of Roland and the other paladins of Charlemagne, and in recent times by the ceramic artist Clarice Cliff (1899–1972).
| 1,397th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 16,083
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 18,323
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- North Dakota
- has the most people named Clarice per capita
- 1929
- marked the height of its popularity
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