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Clarence
Pronounced /ˈklæɹəns/
Rank in 2024
#1,565
Born in 2024
111
Peak year
1921 · #28
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:0 in 2024
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 111 boys were named Clarence, about 1 in every 15,453.
- It peaked in 1921 with 7,332 babies, ranked #28.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 303,445 boys 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.
- 6.9Greatest1901–27
- 3.7Silent1928–45
- 1.4Boomers1946–64
- 0.7Gen X1965–80
- 0.3Millennials1981–96
- 0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 116,063 babies, 6.94 per 1,000. Silent: 75,998 babies, 3.68 per 1,000. Boomers: 54,234 babies, 1.44 per 1,000. Gen X: 18,953 babies, 0.70 per 1,000. Millennials: 10,016 babies, 0.33 per 1,000. Gen Z: 4,200 babies, 0.13 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,837 babies, 0.08 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.