Clarabel
Clarabel was last recorded in 1936, when 6 babies were given it; 303 Americans have been recorded with it between 1896 and 1936 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Clarabel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Clarabel mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Clarabel is “a female given name from Latin, of rare usage, variant of Claribel.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Clarabel?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #3,768, in 1936; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
22 babies in 1922, the peak
Clarabel peaked in 1922, when 22 girls were given it, #1,844 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1936 | 6 | #3,768 | 5.8 |
| 1934 | 8 | #3,204 | 7.7 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,469 | 6.9 |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,323 | 7.5 |
| 1931 | 9 | #3,013 | 8.5 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,394 | 7.1 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,732 | 6.3 |
| 1928 | 11 | #2,797 | 9.5 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,602 | 6.7 |
| 1926 | 11 | #2,901 | 9.3 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1925 | 9 | #3,411 | 7.4 |
| 1924 | 14 | #2,544 | 11.2 |
| 1923 | 16 | #2,281 | 13.3 |
| 1922 | 22 | #1,844 | 18.3 |
| 1921 | 20 | #1,995 | 16.2 |
| 1920 | 11 | #2,934 | 9.2 |
| 1919 | 20 | #1,867 | 17.7 |
| 1918 | 11 | #2,851 | 9.5 |
| 1917 | 14 | #2,336 | 12.9 |
| 1916 | 13 | #2,395 | 12.4 |
| 1915 | 16 | #1,979 | 16.3 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,271 | 8.0 |
| 1912 | 8 | #2,192 | 14.3 |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,814 | 19.1 |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,189 | 15.1 |
| 1909 | 6 | #2,005 | 17.3 |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,172 | 15.0 |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,634 | 22.9 |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,835 | 18.9 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,627 | 21.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Clarabel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Clarabel has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Clarabel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Clarabel, and how old are they?
An estimated 9 Americans named Clarabel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 145 people named Clarabel (144 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 28 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5.2 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Clarabel rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 3,753 babies since 1880, Clarabel is the third most given (8.1% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Clarabel
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Clarabel and names like it
- Compare Clarabel and ClaribelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sClarabel peaked in 1922.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Clarabel since 1910.
- The top names of 1922The year the most babies were named Clarabel.
- Names starting with CMost given first.