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Clarabel

Girls' name

Bright, shining, clear, through Claribel

Clarabel has been given to 303 babies in the U.S. since 1896. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1922, with 22 recorded.

Babies named Clarabel, 1936

1 in 346,000

Clarabel over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Clarabel: meaning, origin, and history

Bright, shining, clear, through Claribel

Latin

What Clarabel means

Clarabel belongs to the name family reached through Clarabel → Claribel → Clara. Its meaning is “bright, shining, clear”.

Origin, language, and formation

Clarabel is used in English. Its origins include Latin.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Claribel and Clara.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 303 girls were recorded with the name Clarabel between 1896 and 1936. Its highest annual count was 22 in 1922; its best national rank was #1,627 in 1896.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Clarabel?

Clarabel had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1936, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1936
1 in 346,000
6 of 2,077,561 births
Among girls only
1 in 173,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1936
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
240,010 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Clarabel sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1936 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 240,010 children born in 1936 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Clarabel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Clarabels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Clarabel was born before 1921 — so the typical Clarabel is around 104 today.

Median birth year
1921
About 104 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
42.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
86.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
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1920s — 42.6% of all recorded uses (129).

Is Clarabel rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1922 (22)
Years since peak
103
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,627
1896

Spellings of Clarabel

Clarabel is not the most common spelling — Claribel is, with 57.0% against Clarabel's 5.8%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Clarabel is used

Across 1910–2025, Clarabel was most concentrated in Ohio — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,082,552 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Ohio1 in —
  2. 2Pennsylvania1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Clarabel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Clarabel by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,627
1896
Peak year
1922
22 that year
First recorded
1896
Last recorded
1936
All-time count
303
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Clarabel

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Clarabel

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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