Clarance
Clarance is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 401st, in 1882.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1926109 births
- Best rank
- #401in 1882
- Since 1880
- 4,078people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,078 boys have been named Clarance in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1926, with 109 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 109 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1930, and the 1920s alone account for 23%. It has spent 69 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Clarance | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 107 | |
| 1890s | 123 | |
| 1900s | 196 | |
| 1910s | 598 | |
| 1920s | 928 | |
| 1930s | 763 | |
| 1940s | 541 | |
| 1950s | 371 | |
| 1960s | 225 | |
| 1970s | 111 | |
| 1980s | 72 | |
| 1990s | 31 | |
| 2000s | 12 |
In 1926, its biggest year
Clarance was the 603rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1926 were Robert, John, James, William and Charles. See all of 1926.
Names that rose and fell with Clarance
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Artherpeak 1922
- Haywoodpeak 1919
- Alviepeak 1921
- Furmanpeak 1918
- Juniouspeak 1916
- Burrellpeak 1919
- Ennispeak 1922
- Horacepeak 1921
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.