How Many People Are Named Clare?
people named Clare are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 14,701 people in the US has this name
Based on 34,510 babies named Clare in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
512 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Medieval English form of CLARA. This is also the name of an Irish county, which was originally named for the Norman invader Richard de Clare (known as Strongbow), whose surname was derived from the name of an English river.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Clare in English. Counting Clare and these spellings together, about 192,324 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Clare, 97.8% were girls and 2.2% were boys. The share of girls among babies named Clare rose from 75.5% in the 1880s to 100% in the 2020s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Clare alive today is about 36 years old, and 50% are under 30. Half of them were between 16 and 60 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Clare first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1999, to 512 babies. In 2025, 283 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Clare has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #320, in 1884. In 2025 it ranked #924.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #924 |
| Best rank | #320 (1884) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #637 in the 2000s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Clare alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Clare were born in New York than in any other state: about 2,607 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Clare was given 2.6 times as often in Massachusetts, 2.3 times in Michigan and 2 times in New Jersey.
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