Clarke
Clarke is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 35 births. Its best rank was 831st, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 350.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 194761 births
- Best rank
- #831in 1880
- Since 1880
- 5,418people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,872 boys have been named Clarke in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1947, with 61 births.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1961, and the 1950s alone account for 13%. It has spent 15 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Clarke is used for both sexes: 29% of its bearers are girls (1,546), most of them born around 2021.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Clarke | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 16 | |
| 1890s | 11 | |
| 1900s | 26 | |
| 1910s | 206 | |
| 1920s | 315 | |
| 1930s | 356 | |
| 1940s | 439 | |
| 1950s | 491 | |
| 1960s | 417 | |
| 1970s | 232 | |
| 1980s | 288 | |
| 1990s | 305 | |
| 2000s | 212 | |
| 2010s | 375 | |
| 2020s | 183 |
In 1947, its biggest year
Clarke was the 890th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1947 were James, Robert, John, William and Richard. See all of 1947.
Names that rose and fell with Clarke
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lionelpeak 2023
- Calvinpeak 1924
- Stantonpeak 1954
- Domingopeak 1946
- Vaughnpeak 1949
- Rexpeak 1951
- Malcolmpeak 1992
- Darwinpeak 1958
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.