Names

Simply means “clarity, lucidity” from the English word, ultimately from Latin clarus “clear”.

Possibly a derivative of Clara.

French form of Clarice.

Latinate form of Clarice. This was the name of the title character in a 1748 novel by Samuel Richardson. In the novel Clarissa is a virtuous woman who is tragically exploited by her family and her lover.

Spanish form of Clarissa.

Combination of Clara and the popular name suffix inda. It was first used by Edmund Spenser in his epic poem The Faerie Queene (1590).

Medieval vernacular form of the Late Latin name Claritia, which was a derivative of Clara.

Combination of Clara and the popular name suffix bel. This name was used by Edmund Spenser in his poem The Faerie Queene (1590; in the form Claribell) and by Shakespeare in his play The Tempest (1611). Alfred Lord Tennyson also wrote a poem entitled Claribel (1830).

Diminutive of Clara.

Diminutive of Clara.