Clary — #7615 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Clary

The Social Security Administration has registered 302 babies named Clary between 1917 and 2024, spanning 108 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Clary currently holds the #7615 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2017, when 18 babies received it in a single year. Clary is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 177 additional births since 1915.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Clary performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 100 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Clary shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Alabama, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Clary in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Clary 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 302 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.