Clearance — boys' name

What the Data Says About Clearance

The Social Security Administration has registered 652 babies named Clearance between 1903 and 1972, spanning 70 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Clearance currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1972. The name reached its historical peak in 1925, when 28 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Clearance performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 204 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Clearance shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Tennessee, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and North Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Clearance in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Clearance 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 652 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.