How Many People Are Named Claribel?

1,736

people named Claribel are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 196,880 people in the US has this name

Based on 2,977 babies named Claribel in Social Security records from 1881 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#7,367

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#4,127

See the top 100

Peak Year

1984

117 births

Trend

→

Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: KLER-ə-bel, KLAR-ə-bel
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Combination of CLARA and the popular name suffix bel. This name was used by Edmund Spenser in his poem 'The Faerie Queene' (in the form Claribell) and by Shakespeare in his play 'The Tempest' (1611). Alfred Lord Tennyson also wrote a poem entitled 'Claribel' (1830).

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Claribel in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Claribel alive today is about 36 years old, and 61% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 26 and 46 in 2025.

Under 30 548
31.6%
30 to 59 1,062
61.2%
60 and over 126
7.3%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Claribel first appears in the records in 1881 and was given most often in 1984, to 117 babies. In 2025, 8 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1881 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Claribel has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #635, in 1881. In 2025 it ranked #11,150.

Girls
Rank in 2025#11,150
Best rank#635 (1881)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#2,312 in the 1980s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Claribel alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Claribel were born in New York than in any other state: about 424 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Claribel was given 5.1 times as often in New York, 2.4 times in California and 1.5 times in Illinois.

New York 424
California 312
Texas 98
Illinois 56
New Jersey 42
Missouri 1
Ohio 1

Look up another name

👤

⊙ We don't save the names you search.