Clarance — boys' name

What the Data Says About Clarance

The Social Security Administration has registered 4,078 babies named Clarance between 1880 and 2009, spanning 130 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Clarance currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2009. The name reached its historical peak in 1926, when 109 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Clarance performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 928 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Clarance shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 231 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and Alabama. In total, SSA state-level files list Clarance in 19 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Clarance in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 4,078 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.