Meaning not yet researched.
Clare: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 283 in 2025. Its best rank was #320 in 1884.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #320 in 1884; #924 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Clare in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#924 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1884, at #320.
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Clare: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 283 girls in 2025. Peak: #320 in 1884 · most girls in one year: 510 (1998).
In 2025, 283 US girls were named Clare, making it the 924th most common girls’ name of the year, up 25 places from #949 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 277 girls named Clare in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #320, reached in 1884. The most girls given the name in a single year was 510, in 1998. For comparison, it was #731 in 2015 and #496 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Clare in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 23 babies with the name. In all, 34,510 US babies have been given the name, 91% of them girls and 8.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 4,396 babies named Clare.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,145 US girls were named Clare; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 394. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,679 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Clare ranked highest in Maryland in 2025, at #360 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Clara (301,540 babies since 1880), Claire (214,123 babies since 1880), Clair (16,351 babies since 1880) and Klaire (1,814 babies since 1880). The open nickname list we use links it to Clara.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
Clare is listed as a nickname for Claire, Clarence.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 30 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | 15 | #360 | #584 |
| Massachusetts | 14 | #402 | #455 |
| New Jersey | 15 | #504 | #625 |
| Kansas | 6 | #511 | — |
| Iowa | 5 | #588 | #305 |
| Ohio | 17 | #600 | #580 |
| Illinois | 16 | #602 | #425 |
| Michigan | 12 | #649 | #345 |
| New York | 25 | #662 | #563 |
| Minnesota | 7 | #677 | #792 |
| Virginia | 10 | #709 | #480 |
| Pennsylvania | 12 | #773 | #798 |
| Colorado | 6 | #816 | — |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #818 | #373 |
| Missouri | 6 | #833 | #531 |
| Indiana | 7 | #839 | #715 |
| Florida | 14 | #1,067 | #1,141 |
| Texas | 20 | #1,279 | #936 |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,409 | #1,559 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,506 | #833 |
| California | 14 | #1,596 | #856 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 283 | #924 | — | — |
| 2024 | 277 | #949 | — | — |
| 2023 | 260 | #985 | — | — |
| 2022 | 257 | #1,012 | — | — |
| 2021 | 329 | #837 | — | — |
| 2020 | 329 | #831 | — | — |
| 2019 | 344 | #803 | — | — |
| 2018 | 357 | #763 | — | — |
| 2017 | 315 | #867 | — | — |
| 2016 | 394 | #722 | — | — |
| 2015 | 389 | #731 | — | — |
| 2014 | 387 | #723 | — | — |
| 2013 | 377 | #728 | — | — |
| 2012 | 379 | #731 | — | — |
| 2011 | 414 | #679 | — | — |
| 2010 | 421 | #681 | — | — |
| 2009 | 405 | #713 | — | — |
| 2008 | 453 | #674 | — | — |
| 2007 | 473 | #630 | — | — |
| 2006 | 439 | #659 | — | — |
| 2005 | 412 | #675 | — | — |
| 2004 | 419 | #652 | — | — |
| 2003 | 417 | #638 | — | — |
| 2002 | 433 | #597 | — | — |
| 2001 | 460 | #562 | — | — |
| 2000 | 485 | #535 | — | — |
| 1999 | 507 | #509 | 5 | #10,183 |
| 1998 | 510 | #500 | — | — |
| 1997 | 446 | #535 | — | — |
| 1996 | 450 | #526 | — | — |
| 1995 | 388 | #587 | — | — |
| 1994 | 355 | #623 | — | — |
| 1993 | 328 | #668 | — | — |
| 1992 | 323 | #679 | — | — |
| 1991 | 323 | #669 | — | — |
| 1990 | 338 | #657 | — | — |
| 1989 | 279 | #711 | 5 | #8,095 |
| 1988 | 253 | #740 | — | — |
| 1987 | 249 | #725 | — | — |
| 1986 | 212 | #793 | — | — |
| 1985 | 208 | #798 | — | — |
| 1984 | 210 | #768 | — | — |
| 1983 | 170 | #891 | — | — |
| 1982 | 184 | #846 | — | — |
| 1981 | 143 | #1,015 | — | — |
| 1980 | 131 | #1,078 | — | — |
| 1979 | 130 | #1,064 | — | — |
| 1978 | 123 | #1,072 | 5 | #5,955 |
| 1977 | 115 | #1,111 | 8 | #4,230 |
| 1976 | 116 | #1,055 | 5 | #5,751 |
| 1975 | 110 | #1,069 | 7 | #4,396 |
| 1974 | 104 | #1,116 | — | — |
| 1973 | 110 | #1,055 | — | — |
| 1972 | 77 | #1,315 | — | — |
| 1971 | 75 | #1,406 | 6 | #4,478 |
| 1970 | 116 | #1,052 | 7 | #3,913 |
| 1969 | 115 | #1,010 | — | — |
| 1968 | 132 | #900 | — | — |
| 1967 | 149 | #815 | 10 | #2,633 |
| 1966 | 167 | #759 | 10 | #2,656 |
| 1965 | 180 | #745 | 9 | #2,821 |
| 1964 | 243 | #656 | 7 | #3,333 |
| 1963 | 286 | #587 | 13 | #2,322 |
| 1962 | 318 | #549 | 13 | #2,295 |
| 1961 | 334 | #538 | 13 | #2,337 |
| 1960 | 321 | #538 | 16 | #2,052 |
| 1959 | 313 | #548 | 17 | #1,985 |
| 1958 | 333 | #528 | 22 | #1,689 |
| 1957 | 293 | #561 | 24 | #1,640 |
| 1956 | 271 | #571 | 19 | #1,840 |
| 1955 | 318 | #518 | 27 | #1,491 |
| 1954 | 261 | #552 | 23 | #1,598 |
| 1953 | 323 | #479 | 22 | #1,640 |
| 1952 | 248 | #546 | 20 | #1,710 |
| 1951 | 255 | #519 | 32 | #1,303 |
| 1950 | 265 | #496 | 33 | #1,259 |
| 1949 | 245 | #526 | 37 | #1,165 |
| 1948 | 223 | #555 | 30 | #1,327 |
| 1947 | 267 | #505 | 42 | #1,119 |
| 1946 | 241 | #503 | 39 | #1,113 |
| 1945 | 217 | #493 | 34 | #1,127 |
| 1944 | 225 | #475 | 33 | #1,154 |
| 1943 | 212 | #512 | 36 | #1,143 |
| 1942 | 163 | #580 | 42 | #1,038 |
| 1941 | 162 | #550 | 43 | #973 |
| 1940 | 173 | #522 | 28 | #1,278 |
| 1939 | 156 | #532 | 37 | #1,056 |
| 1938 | 143 | #574 | 50 | #885 |
| 1937 | 168 | #507 | 47 | #908 |
| 1936 | 167 | #500 | 41 | #974 |
| 1935 | 167 | #488 | 38 | #1,043 |
| 1934 | 188 | #472 | 49 | #899 |
| 1933 | 199 | #466 | 45 | #938 |
| 1932 | 226 | #439 | 68 | #767 |
| 1931 | 234 | #423 | 59 | #818 |
| 1930 | 231 | #445 | 59 | #855 |
| 1929 | 208 | #459 | 64 | #808 |
| 1928 | 231 | #450 | 78 | #725 |
| 1927 | 241 | #444 | 73 | #768 |
| 1926 | 241 | #440 | 83 | #695 |
| 1925 | 254 | #433 | 94 | #659 |
| 1924 | 217 | #471 | 84 | #722 |
| 1923 | 240 | #436 | 91 | #672 |
| 1922 | 229 | #453 | 91 | #681 |
| 1921 | 241 | #445 | 92 | #675 |
| 1920 | 237 | #435 | 103 | #624 |
| 1919 | 233 | #430 | 88 | #659 |
| 1918 | 255 | #410 | 86 | #670 |
| 1917 | 189 | #474 | 87 | #637 |
| 1916 | 215 | #427 | 85 | #630 |
| 1915 | 171 | #472 | 77 | #663 |
| 1914 | 169 | #407 | 75 | #579 |
| 1913 | 113 | #472 | 50 | #630 |
| 1912 | 132 | #402 | 32 | #767 |
| 1911 | 84 | #443 | 26 | #598 |
| 1910 | 94 | #407 | 18 | #713 |
| 1909 | 73 | #431 | 24 | #533 |
| 1908 | 70 | #430 | 14 | #718 |
| 1907 | 55 | #482 | 14 | #708 |
| 1906 | 59 | #445 | 13 | #683 |
| 1905 | 67 | #415 | 14 | #639 |
| 1904 | 59 | #422 | 12 | #693 |
| 1903 | 57 | #421 | 12 | #661 |
| 1902 | 57 | #408 | 15 | #562 |
| 1901 | 47 | #432 | 12 | #608 |
| 1900 | 63 | #424 | 10 | #851 |
| 1899 | 37 | #482 | 16 | #486 |
| 1898 | 59 | #401 | 8 | #817 |
| 1897 | 48 | #420 | 7 | #861 |
| 1896 | 53 | #388 | 19 | #467 |
| 1895 | 47 | #412 | 9 | #748 |
| 1894 | 56 | #372 | 17 | #484 |
| 1893 | 30 | #504 | 16 | #464 |
| 1892 | 56 | #351 | 10 | #695 |
| 1891 | 34 | #432 | 5 | #996 |
| 1890 | 35 | #431 | 5 | #1,032 |
| 1889 | 34 | #416 | 11 | #593 |
| 1888 | 43 | #366 | 12 | #582 |
| 1887 | 31 | #390 | 12 | #523 |
| 1886 | 26 | #426 | 9 | #656 |
| 1885 | 27 | #396 | 8 | #712 |
| 1884 | 38 | #320 | 10 | #621 |
| 1883 | 22 | #398 | 12 | #532 |
| 1882 | 21 | #391 | 8 | #715 |
| 1881 | 20 | #375 | — | — |
| 1880 | 15 | #435 | 8 | #694 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).