Clarice is from the Latin Claritia (brilliant, clear). Clarice Lispector (1920-1977) — Ukrainian-born Brazilian novelist — is widely considered one of the most important Latin American writers of the 20th century. *Her novels Near to the Wild Heart (1943), The Passion According to G.H. (1964), and The Hour of the Star (1977) transformed Brazilian literature with their stream-of-consciousness and metaphysical intensity. Benjamin Moser's biography Why This World (2009) introduced her to a wider English-speaking readership.*
The most translated Brazilian author in history.
Clarice does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Clarice reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.