Clarabella
Clarabella was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,178 among girls’ names; 79 Americans have been recorded with it since 2005 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Clarabella by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Clarabella mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Clarabella is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Clarabella?
#12,178 among girls’ names, 2025
Clarabella fell from #12,083 in 2015 to #12,178 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 4.5 to 4.4 per million.
11 babies in 2012, the peak
Clarabella peaked in 2012, when 11 girls were given it, #9,865 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 64% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,178 | 4.4 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,694 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,821 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,307 | 4.9 |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,769 | 4.1 |
| 2017 | 5 | #16,403 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,722 | 3.4 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,083 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,375 | 3.9 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,865 | 6.2 |
Every recorded year (12)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 5 | #17,354 | 2.8 |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,054 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Clarabella a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Clarabella has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 12 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Clarabella: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Clarabella, and how old are they?
An estimated 78 Americans named Clarabella 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.
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.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,024 babies since 1880, Clarabella is the second most given (3.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 40 babies (18%), again the second most given.
| Name | Since 1880 | Births 2025 | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clarabelle | 1,945 | 33 | 1919 |
| Clarabella | 79 | 7 | 2012 |
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 Clarabella
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 Clarabella and names like it
- Compare Clarabella and ClarabelleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sClarabella peaked in 2012.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Clarabella.
- Names starting with CMost given first.