Clarke — #3323 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Clarke

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,872 babies named Clarke between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Clarke currently holds the #3323 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1947, when 61 babies received it in a single year. Clarke is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,546 additional births since 1991.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Clarke performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 491 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Clarke shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 153 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Clarke in 13 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Clarke 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 3,872 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.