Clarence
Clarence is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 111 births. Its best rank was 17th, in 1885–1899, 1901–1905.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1110.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 19217,332 births
- Best rank
- #17first in 1885
- Since 1880
- 305,304people given the name
The story in the numbers
303,445 boys have been named Clarence in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 7,332 births — 0.67% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 111 births in 2024, against 7,332 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1930, and the 1920s alone account for 22%. It has spent 130 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 72 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,859 girls have also been given it, 0.61% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Clarence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 8,760 | |
| 1890s | 11,901 | |
| 1900s | 13,573 | |
| 1910s | 49,196 | |
| 1920s | 66,574 | |
| 1930s | 42,677 | |
| 1940s | 36,197 | |
| 1950s | 29,486 | |
| 1960s | 17,502 | |
| 1970s | 10,667 | |
| 1980s | 7,364 | |
| 1990s | 4,539 | |
| 2000s | 2,591 | |
| 2010s | 1,794 | |
| 2020s | 624 |
In 1921, its biggest year
Clarence was the 28th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1921 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Clarence
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Homerpeak 1920
- Horacepeak 1921
- Hermanpeak 1921
- Elmerpeak 1918
- Burrellpeak 1919
- Earlepeak 1918
- Elmorepeak 1918
- Millardpeak 1922
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.