Clare — #949 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Clare

The Social Security Administration has registered 31,172 babies named Clare between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Clare currently holds the #949 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1998, when 510 babies received it in a single year. Clare is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 3,053 additional births since 1880.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Clare performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 4,396 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Clare shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 3,846 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Pennsylvania and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Clare in 45 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Clare 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 31,172 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.