Clark — #437 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Clark

The Social Security Administration has registered 50,015 babies named Clark between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Clark currently holds the #437 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1961, when 880 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Clark performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 6,879 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Clark shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 4,117 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Clark in 50 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Clark 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 50,015 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.