Clearence
Clearence was last recorded in 1986, when 6 babies were given it; 1,427 Americans have been recorded with it between 1897 and 1986 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Clearence by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Clearence?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #6,069, in 1986; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
58 babies in 1927, the peak
Clearence peaked in 1927, when 58 boys were given it, #892 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 6 | #6,069 | 3.3 |
| 1978 | 5 | #5,954 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 5 | #5,752 | 3.2 |
| 1971 | 8 | #3,711 | 4.5 |
| 1970 | 9 | #3,318 | 4.8 |
| 1969 | 7 | #3,654 | 3.9 |
| 1967 | 7 | #3,295 | 4.0 |
| 1966 | 9 | #2,809 | 5.0 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,003 | 2.7 |
| 1963 | 7 | #3,364 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (66)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | 12 | #2,396 | 5.8 |
| 1961 | 11 | #2,572 | 5.2 |
| 1960 | 11 | #2,561 | 5.2 |
| 1959 | 12 | #2,436 | 5.6 |
| 1958 | 14 | #2,190 | 6.6 |
| 1957 | 16 | #2,035 | 7.4 |
| 1956 | 12 | #2,385 | 5.7 |
| 1955 | 9 | #2,801 | 4.4 |
| 1954 | 14 | #2,130 | 6.9 |
| 1953 | 20 | #1,719 | 10.1 |
| 1952 | 17 | #1,871 | 8.7 |
| 1951 | 15 | #1,987 | 8.0 |
| 1950 | 20 | #1,662 | 11.2 |
| 1949 | 28 | #1,387 | 15.8 |
| 1948 | 19 | #1,716 | 10.8 |
| 1947 | 22 | #1,606 | 12.0 |
| 1946 | 24 | #1,441 | 14.8 |
| 1945 | 31 | #1,185 | 23.0 |
| 1944 | 27 | #1,288 | 19.8 |
| 1943 | 27 | #1,347 | 18.9 |
| 1942 | 45 | #993 | 32.6 |
| 1941 | 25 | #1,338 | 20.4 |
| 1940 | 32 | #1,188 | 27.6 |
| 1939 | 33 | #1,123 | 29.8 |
| 1938 | 32 | #1,150 | 28.9 |
| 1937 | 23 | #1,414 | 21.6 |
| 1936 | 28 | #1,248 | 27.0 |
| 1935 | 30 | #1,228 | 28.8 |
| 1934 | 35 | #1,120 | 33.9 |
| 1933 | 39 | #1,033 | 39.3 |
| 1932 | 46 | #967 | 44.1 |
| 1931 | 34 | #1,173 | 32.7 |
| 1930 | 44 | #1,040 | 40.1 |
| 1929 | 47 | #985 | 43.7 |
| 1928 | 55 | #904 | 49.7 |
| 1927 | 58 | #892 | 51.5 |
| 1926 | 34 | #1,244 | 30.6 |
| 1925 | 32 | #1,285 | 28.7 |
| 1924 | 47 | #1,036 | 41.5 |
| 1923 | 27 | #1,430 | 24.6 |
| 1922 | 34 | #1,243 | 31.2 |
| 1921 | 36 | #1,205 | 32.7 |
| 1920 | 23 | #1,602 | 21.6 |
| 1919 | 24 | #1,490 | 24.5 |
| 1918 | 22 | #1,607 | 21.7 |
| 1917 | 23 | #1,486 | 24.9 |
| 1916 | 19 | #1,651 | 21.3 |
| 1915 | 11 | #2,334 | 13.0 |
| 1914 | 14 | #1,700 | 21.4 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,309 | 13.7 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,328 | 14.0 |
| 1911 | 6 | #1,567 | 26.6 |
| 1909 | 8 | #1,098 | 48.8 |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,117 | 47.7 |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,191 | 39.9 |
| 1897 | 6 | #963 | 53.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Clearence a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Clearence has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 66 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Clearence: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Clearence, and how old are they?
An estimated 341 Americans named Clearence and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (24% of everyone recorded); the median is 76 years old and half are between 67 and 83. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 162 people named Clearence (0 women and girls, 162 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 474 born in the U.S. The Census count is 66% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 5 names spelled alike, given to 2,801 babies since 1880, Clearence is the most given (51% of them).
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 Clearence
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 Clearence and names like it
- Compare Clearence and ClearanceBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sClearence peaked in 1927.
- Kentucky’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Clearence since 1910.
- The top names of 1927The year the most babies were named Clearence.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Clearence alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.