Girls' name · since 2003
Klarke
Klarke has 68 recorded births since 2003 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2020 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #31,473 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #11,498 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 68
- born since 2003
- 2020s
- peak decade
Klarke currently ranks #11498 among girls' names in America, with 68 babies recorded since 2003.
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Klarke has been recorded 68 times among girls since 2003, currently ranked #11498 nationally and more common than 34% of girls, with its heaviest use in the 2020s. This profile covers year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution, all derived directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2003 to 2025.
- #31,473 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #11,498 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 68 born since 2003
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Klarke ranks #31,473 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #11,498 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 68 born since 2003, peaking in the 2020s.
- #31,473 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #11,498 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 68
- born since 2003
- 2020s
- peak decade
Klarke's 68 recorded births place it above 56.37% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Klarke compares
68 19th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Klarke's all-time total is 82% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Klarke | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 68 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 12 | 21 | 19,840 |
Klarke's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Klarke's full recorded timeline at 2020, 60% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 40% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 2013, with just 6 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2020 peak of 12 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Klarke popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2003–2025
- Peak year (2020)
- 12
- Annual births at peak, across 23 years of records
Klarke by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (41 births, 60% of the file).
2020s was Klarke's strongest decade.
41 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 60% of all-time use.
Klarke births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2000s 8
2000s
8 births
- 2010s
2010s
19 births
- 2020s
2020s
41 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 41 births (60% of all-time use).
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2003–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Klarke draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.