Clarinda
Clarinda is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 688th, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 195235 births
- Best rank
- #688in 1880
- Since 1880
- 1,325people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,325 girls have been named Clarinda in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1952, with 35 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 35 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1952, and the 1950s alone account for 16%. It has spent 5 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Clarinda | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 47 | |
| 1890s | 54 | |
| 1900s | 67 | |
| 1910s | 122 | |
| 1920s | 110 | |
| 1930s | 82 | |
| 1940s | 118 | |
| 1950s | 218 | |
| 1960s | 140 | |
| 1970s | 201 | |
| 1980s | 100 | |
| 1990s | 44 | |
| 2000s | 22 |
In 1952, its biggest year
Clarinda was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1952 were Linda, Mary, Patricia, Deborah and Susan. See all of 1952.
Names that rose and fell with Clarinda
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Minervapeak 1955
- Rosapeak 1925
- Melvinapeak 1920
- Dessapeak 2001
- Renapeak 1962
- Catharinepeak 1915
- Deliapeak 1957
- Bertapeak 1926
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.