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Clarence

Pronounced /ˈklæɹəns/

Rank in 2024
unranked
Born in 2024
0
Peak year
1928 · #1095
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for boys:111 in 2024 (#1,565)

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • No girls were recorded as Clarence in 2024; the SSA lists names only when 5 or more babies get them.
  • It peaked in 1928 with 48 babies, ranked #1095.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 1,859 girls have been named Clarence since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Clarence per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. <0.1
    Greatest
  2. <0.1
    Silent
  3. <0.1
    Boomers
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    Gen X
  5. <0.1
    Millennials
  6. 0
    Gen Z
  7. 0
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 653 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Silent: 499 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Boomers: 342 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen X: 214 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Millennials: 75 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen Z: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

Originally a ducal title of the English and British royal family, from Clārensis (“from the town of Clare”), (the town of Clare, Suffolk), although it has also been associated with Italian Chiarenza, Clarentza, &c., a former fortress and settlement in the medieval Frankish Principality of Achaea in Greece.

  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
/ˈklæɹəns/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Clarence, CC BY-SA 4.0.