girls:
25.4k births since 1880
#898 (84th percentile)
boys:
96 births since 1911
#4490 (2nd percentile)
overall:
25.5k births since 1880
#1594 (79th percentile)
The name Clarice is the #1,594 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 25,456 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 79.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 79.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #898 (84.3% percentile) for all time with 25,360 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,490 (2.0% percentile) for all time with 96 births since 1911.
Clarice has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1911 for boys).
The name Clarice has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Clarice reached its peak popularity in 1925, achieving the 57.6% percentile (ranked #261) with 470 births per million. The name was most common in 1913, with 487 births per million (ranked 48.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Clarice ranks #928 for girls (2.0% percentile) with 14 births per million, which is 2.8% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Clarice reached its peak popularity in 1927, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #532) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1911, with 21 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1936.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Clarice".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Clarice. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 27.3% confident that Clarice is pronounced as KLEH-rihs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kler-EES, at 22.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like K L EH1 R IH0 S) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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