girls:
1.9k births since 1880
#3933 (31st percentile)
boys:
303.3k births since 1880
#117 (97th percentile)
overall:
305.2k births since 1880
#249 (97th percentile)
The name Clarence is the #249 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 305,188 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 96.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 96.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #117 (97.5% percentile) for all time with 303,329 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #3,933 (31.2% percentile) for all time with 1,859 births since 1880.
Clarence has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880
The name Clarence has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Clarence reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 95.8% percentile (ranked #23) with 6,854 births per million. The name was most common in 1895, with 10,463 births per million (ranked 92.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1905, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Clarence ranks #804 for boys (11.8% percentile) with 61 births per million, which is 0.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Clarence reached its peak popularity in 1928, achieving the 7.1% percentile (ranked #563) with 40 births per million. The name was most common in 1880, with 72 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1992.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Clarence".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Clarence. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 75.6% confident that Clarence is pronounced as KLEH-ruhns, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KLAH-ruhns, at 15.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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