Clarabelle
Clarabelle was given to 33 girls in 2025, #4,280 among girls’ names; 1,945 Americans have been recorded with it since 1884 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Clarabelle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Clarabelle mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Clarabelle is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Clarabelle?
#4,280 among girls’ names, 2025
Clarabelle rose from #4,618 in 2015 to #4,280 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 16.8 to 20.5 per million.
76 babies in 1919, the peak
Clarabelle peaked in 1919, when 76 girls were given it, #806 among girls’ names. The 33 births of 2025 are 43% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33 | #4,280 | 20.5 |
| 2024 | 35 | #4,132 | 21.6 |
| 2023 | 28 | #4,779 | 17.5 |
| 2022 | 25 | #5,198 | 15.2 |
| 2021 | 37 | #3,945 | 22.5 |
| 2020 | 30 | #4,472 | 18.6 |
| 2019 | 26 | #5,061 | 15.5 |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,581 | 10.6 |
| 2017 | 30 | #4,598 | 17.4 |
| 2016 | 35 | #4,179 | 19.8 |
Every recorded year (74)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 30 | #4,618 | 16.8 |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,835 | 12.3 |
| 2013 | 29 | #4,782 | 16.5 |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,524 | 9.1 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,622 | 10.8 |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,228 | 11.8 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,762 | 8.7 |
| 2008 | 10 | #10,975 | 5.3 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,004 | 5.2 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,766 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,110 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,243 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,231 | 4.4 |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,908 | 2.8 |
| 1949 | 8 | #3,946 | 4.7 |
| 1947 | 6 | #4,836 | 3.4 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,106 | 4.6 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,690 | 8.9 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,293 | 6.6 |
| 1940 | 11 | #2,593 | 9.6 |
| 1939 | 14 | #2,222 | 12.8 |
| 1938 | 13 | #2,358 | 11.8 |
| 1937 | 21 | #1,688 | 19.7 |
| 1936 | 20 | #1,700 | 19.2 |
| 1935 | 22 | #1,616 | 21.0 |
| 1934 | 26 | #1,446 | 24.9 |
| 1933 | 37 | #1,162 | 36.7 |
| 1932 | 47 | #1,034 | 44.0 |
| 1931 | 51 | #977 | 47.9 |
| 1930 | 57 | #972 | 50.6 |
| 1929 | 60 | #923 | 53.7 |
| 1928 | 54 | #1,017 | 46.8 |
| 1927 | 60 | #982 | 50.3 |
| 1926 | 55 | #1,007 | 46.4 |
| 1925 | 48 | #1,102 | 39.4 |
| 1924 | 46 | #1,153 | 36.8 |
| 1923 | 64 | #917 | 53.1 |
| 1922 | 55 | #1,011 | 45.8 |
| 1921 | 65 | #920 | 52.7 |
| 1920 | 66 | #895 | 55.1 |
| 1919 | 76 | #806 | 67.2 |
| 1918 | 49 | #1,034 | 42.3 |
| 1917 | 51 | #980 | 47.2 |
| 1916 | 48 | #998 | 46.0 |
| 1915 | 47 | #971 | 47.8 |
| 1914 | 27 | #1,183 | 35.5 |
| 1913 | 21 | #1,236 | 33.6 |
| 1912 | 25 | #1,036 | 44.8 |
| 1911 | 18 | #1,038 | 43.0 |
| 1910 | 22 | #920 | 55.5 |
| 1909 | 16 | #1,019 | 46.1 |
| 1908 | 14 | #1,096 | 41.9 |
| 1907 | 12 | #1,149 | 37.7 |
| 1906 | 9 | #1,341 | 30.5 |
| 1905 | 5 | #1,989 | 17.1 |
| 1904 | 8 | #1,383 | 29.1 |
| 1902 | 10 | #1,146 | 37.9 |
| 1901 | 9 | #1,149 | 37.6 |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,434 | 25.7 |
| 1898 | 9 | #1,187 | 34.8 |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,444 | 25.2 |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,470 | 23.5 |
| 1887 | 5 | #1,171 | 34.3 |
| 1884 | 7 | #870 | 54.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Clarabelle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Clarabelle has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 74 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Clarabelle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Clarabelle, and how old are they?
An estimated 598 Americans named Clarabelle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (31% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 5 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 517 people named Clarabelle (517 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 538 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
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).
Where are babies named Clarabelle born?
The states with the most babies named Clarabelle are Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania, with 73% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 204 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Michigan | 110 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 44 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New York | 35 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| California | 25 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 23 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Indiana | 17 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 17 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Kansas | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Minnesota | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Clarabelle is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Clarabelle is most over-represented in Ohio: since 1910 it was given 2.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Clarabelle with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,024 babies since 1880, Clarabelle is the most given (96% of them). In 2025 it was given to 33 of their 40 babies (83%), again the 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 Clarabelle
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 Clarabelle and names like it
- Compare Clarabelle and ClarabellaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sClarabelle peaked in 1919.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Clarabelle since 1910.
- The top names of 1919The year the most babies were named Clarabelle.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Clarabelle alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.