girls:
316 births since 1918
#5400 (5th percentile)
boys:
49.3k births since 1880
#504 (89th percentile)
overall:
49.6k births since 1880
#1080 (86th percentile)
The name Clark is the #1,080 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 49,602 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 86.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 86.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #504 (89.0% percentile) for all time with 49,286 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,400 (5.5% percentile) for all time with 316 births since 1918.
Clark has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1918 for girls).
The name Clark has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Clark reached its peak popularity in 2015, achieving the 61.3% percentile (ranked #351) with 425 births per million. The name was most common in 1881, with 610 births per million (ranked 30.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Clark ranks #401 for boys (56.0% percentile) with 386 births per million, which is 63.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Clark reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 2.2% percentile (ranked #915) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 15 births per million (ranked 2.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Clark ranks #935 for girls (1.3% percentile) with 10 births per million, which is 67.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Clark".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Clark. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Clark is pronounced as klahrk, which has 1 syllables.
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