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Clark

Pronounced /klɑː(ɹ)k/

Rank in 2024
#437
Born in 2024
725
Peak year
1961 · #268
Origin
Not recorded

1880 to 2024

Steady
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 725 boys were named Clark, about 1 in every 2,366.
  • It peaked in 1961 with 880 babies, ranked #268.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 50,015 boys have been named Clark since 1880.

Who else has this name

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

  1. 0.3
    Greatest
  2. 0.3
    Silent
  3. 0.3
    Boomers
  4. 0.2
    Gen X
  5. 0.2
    Millennials
  6. 0.1
    Gen Z
  7. 0.4
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 5,241 babies, 0.31 per 1,000. Silent: 7,031 babies, 0.34 per 1,000. Boomers: 12,580 babies, 0.34 per 1,000. Gen X: 5,258 babies, 0.19 per 1,000. Millennials: 4,750 babies, 0.16 per 1,000. Gen Z: 4,628 babies, 0.15 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 9,434 babies, 0.43 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From Old English clerc (“clergyman; learned man”), whence also clerk.

  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
/klɑː(ɹ)k/

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