girls:
1.4k births since 1991
#4296 (25th percentile)
boys:
3.8k births since 1880
#1998 (56th percentile)
overall:
5.3k births since 1880
#3761 (51st percentile)
The name Clarke is the #3,761 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,276 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 51.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 51.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,998 (56.4% percentile) for all time with 3,837 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #4,296 (24.8% percentile) for all time with 1,439 births since 1991.
Clarke has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1991 for girls). Birth data for Clarke is available in 122 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (122 years for boys and 33 years for girls). 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.
The name Clarke has been given predominantly to boys, with 72.7% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 15.9% of babies named Clarke were boys. Interestingly, until around 2016, the name was more popular for boys (87.6% boys from 1880 to 2015), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (73.4% girls from 2016 to 2023).
For boys, Clarke reached its peak popularity in 1947, achieving the 9.4% percentile (ranked #541) with 33 births per million. The name was most common in 1903, with 62 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Clarke ranks #891 for boys (2.2% percentile) with 14 births per million, which is 22.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Clarke reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 15.7% percentile (ranked #789) with 85 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 85 births per million (ranked 15.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2007, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Clarke ranks #820 for girls (13.4% percentile) with 75 births per million, which is 88.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Clarke".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Clarke is pronounced as klahrk, which has 1 syllables.
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