Clarine
Clarine was last recorded in 1975, when 8 babies were given it; 1,659 Americans have been recorded with it between 1900 and 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Clarine by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Clarine?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #6,604, in 1975; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
63 babies in 1923, the peak
Clarine peaked in 1923, when 63 girls were given it, #923 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 8 | #6,604 | 5.5 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,174 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 5 | #6,968 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 6 | #5,926 | 3.4 |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,765 | 2.6 |
| 1962 | 12 | #3,814 | 6.1 |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,053 | 5.4 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,257 | 3.5 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,695 | 4.0 |
| 1958 | 11 | #3,775 | 5.5 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | 9 | #4,262 | 4.4 |
| 1956 | 16 | #2,945 | 8.0 |
| 1955 | 12 | #3,414 | 6.1 |
| 1954 | 20 | #2,457 | 10.3 |
| 1953 | 15 | #2,836 | 8.0 |
| 1952 | 11 | #3,404 | 5.9 |
| 1951 | 26 | #1,925 | 14.4 |
| 1950 | 23 | #2,010 | 13.4 |
| 1949 | 20 | #2,222 | 11.7 |
| 1948 | 16 | #2,506 | 9.4 |
| 1947 | 17 | #2,464 | 9.6 |
| 1946 | 14 | #2,628 | 8.9 |
| 1945 | 23 | #1,756 | 17.6 |
| 1944 | 23 | #1,751 | 17.3 |
| 1943 | 23 | #1,798 | 16.5 |
| 1942 | 28 | #1,561 | 20.7 |
| 1941 | 34 | #1,315 | 28.1 |
| 1940 | 35 | #1,243 | 30.6 |
| 1939 | 33 | #1,295 | 30.1 |
| 1938 | 28 | #1,414 | 25.4 |
| 1937 | 27 | #1,421 | 25.4 |
| 1936 | 35 | #1,208 | 33.6 |
| 1935 | 31 | #1,309 | 29.6 |
| 1934 | 42 | #1,082 | 40.2 |
| 1933 | 36 | #1,182 | 35.7 |
| 1932 | 47 | #1,035 | 44.0 |
| 1931 | 46 | #1,031 | 43.2 |
| 1930 | 46 | #1,089 | 40.9 |
| 1929 | 44 | #1,109 | 39.4 |
| 1928 | 48 | #1,087 | 41.6 |
| 1927 | 39 | #1,264 | 32.7 |
| 1926 | 63 | #943 | 53.1 |
| 1925 | 54 | #1,022 | 44.4 |
| 1924 | 52 | #1,086 | 41.6 |
| 1923 | 63 | #923 | 52.2 |
| 1922 | 48 | #1,107 | 40.0 |
| 1921 | 56 | #1,005 | 45.4 |
| 1920 | 60 | #940 | 50.1 |
| 1919 | 52 | #1,001 | 46.0 |
| 1918 | 36 | #1,260 | 31.1 |
| 1917 | 43 | #1,079 | 39.8 |
| 1916 | 30 | #1,340 | 28.7 |
| 1915 | 26 | #1,412 | 26.4 |
| 1914 | 25 | #1,237 | 32.8 |
| 1913 | 25 | #1,097 | 40.0 |
| 1912 | 17 | #1,313 | 30.5 |
| 1911 | 16 | #1,126 | 38.2 |
| 1910 | 8 | #1,802 | 20.2 |
| 1909 | 12 | #1,231 | 34.6 |
| 1906 | 9 | #1,343 | 30.5 |
| 1905 | 8 | #1,441 | 27.4 |
| 1901 | 6 | #1,517 | 25.1 |
| 1900 | 5 | #1,985 | 16.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Clarine a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Clarine has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 63 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Clarine: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Clarine, and how old are they?
An estimated 380 Americans named Clarine and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (23% of everyone recorded); the median is 78 years old and half are between 71 and 86. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 594 people named Clarine (592 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 545 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% above 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 Clarine born?
The states with the most babies named Clarine are North Carolina, Kentucky and Virginia, with 73% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Kentucky and Virginia are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 140 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Kentucky | 50 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Virginia | 43 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Texas | 38 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Minnesota | 18 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Alabama | 14 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Arkansas | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Ohio | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Clarine is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Clarine is most over-represented in North Carolina: since 1910 it was given 2.5 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 Clarine 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 2,373 babies since 1880, Clarine is the most given (70% 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 Clarine
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 Clarine and names like it
- Compare Clarine and ClareneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sClarine peaked in 1923.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Clarine since 1910.
- The top names of 1923The year the most babies were named Clarine.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Clarine alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.