boys:
4.1k births since 1880
#1920 (58th percentile)
overall:
4.1k births since 1880
#4296 (44th percentile)
The name Clarance is the #4,296 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,078 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 44.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 44.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,920 (58.1% percentile) for all time with 4,078 births since 1880.
Clarance has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 Birth data for Clarance is available in 116 out of the 130 years between 1880 and 2009. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Clarance reached its peak popularity in 1926, achieving the 18.7% percentile (ranked #448) with 95 births per million. The name was most common in 1900, with 185 births per million (ranked 9.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2009.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Clarance".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Clarance", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 9 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Clarence" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Clarence..
Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Clarance. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 65.8% confident that Clarance is pronounced as KLEH-ruhns, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KLA-ruhns, at 23.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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