Clarity
Clarity was given to 115 girls in 2025, #1,759 among girls’ names; 1,014 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,010 Americans named Clarity and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Clarity by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Clarity?
#1,759 among girls’ names, 2025
Clarity rose from #3,223 in 2015 to #1,759 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 28.6 to 71.6 per million.
115 babies in 2025, the peak
Clarity peaked in 2025, when 115 girls were given it, #1,759 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 58 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 115 | #1,759 | 71.6 |
| 2024 | 58 | #2,862 | 35.8 |
| 2023 | 57 | #2,944 | 35.5 |
| 2022 | 68 | #2,583 | 41.5 |
| 2021 | 65 | #2,647 | 39.6 |
| 2020 | 72 | #2,421 | 44.5 |
| 2019 | 59 | #2,826 | 35.2 |
| 2018 | 50 | #3,214 | 29.4 |
| 2017 | 59 | #2,843 | 34.2 |
| 2016 | 36 | #4,105 | 20.3 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 51 | #3,223 | 28.6 |
| 2014 | 64 | #2,718 | 35.8 |
| 2013 | 38 | #3,938 | 21.7 |
| 2012 | 28 | #4,990 | 15.9 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,186 | 9.7 |
| 2010 | 26 | #5,273 | 14.6 |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,361 | 11.4 |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,171 | 11.6 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,185 | 7.8 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,767 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,296 | 5.4 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,150 | 8.7 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,244 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,408 | 5.0 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,287 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,547 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,025 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,627 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,097 | 4.0 |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,808 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,903 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Clarity a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Clarity has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 31 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Clarity: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Clarity, and how old are they?
1,010 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,014 Americans ever recorded as Clarity. The median Clarity alive today is 8 years old; half are between 4 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 549 people named Clarity (543 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 593 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 210 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 787 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,825 babies since 1880, Clarity is the second most given (36% of them). In 2025 it was given to 115 of their 467 babies (25%), again the second most given.
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 Clarity
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 Clarity and names like it
- Compare Clarity and ClaritaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sClarity peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Clarity since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Clarity.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Clarity alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.