Clarabelle

#4,280 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Clarabelle has been given to 1,945 babies in the U.S. since 1884. In 2025 it ranked #4,280 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1919, with 76 recorded.

Babies named Clarabelle, 2025

1 in 100,000

Clarabelle over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Clarabelle: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Clarabelle means

Clarabelle is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Clarabelle is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,945 girls were recorded with the name Clarabelle between 1884 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 76 in 1919; its best national rank was #806 in 1919.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,472 in 2020 to #4,280 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,618 in 2015 to #4,280 in 2025.

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 Clarabelle?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 100,000; 33 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 48,700; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #4,280; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 69,634 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Clarabelle 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 2025 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 69,634 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Clarabelle. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Clarabelles were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Clarabelle was born before 1928 — so the typical Clarabelle is around 97 today.

Median birth year: 1928; About 97 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 29.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 25.9%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 508; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 29.5% of all recorded uses (573).

Is Clarabelle 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: −148; Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago: +192; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: +338; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 1.10×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 43.4%; Peak was 1919 (76)
Years since peak: 106; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 24.9% average annual change
Best rank ever: #806; 1919

Spellings of Clarabelle

Clarabelle is not the most common spelling — Arabelle is, with 53.9% against Clarabelle's 46.1%.

Arabelle53.9%2,272
Clarabelle46.1%1,945

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 Clarabelle is used

Across 1910–2025, Clarabelle was most concentrated in Ohio — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 168,751 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Ohio1 in 33,333
2Michigan1 in 50,000
3Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
4California1 in —
5Illinois1 in —
6Indiana1 in —
7Kansas1 in —
8Minnesota1 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. Clarabelle has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Clarabelle around the world

Where Clarabelle ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

England & Wales
2006–2025
#4,867
in 2025
South Australia
2013–2013
#818
in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Clarabelle by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #4,280
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 192
Best rank ever: #806; 1919
Peak year: 1919; 76 that year
First recorded: 1884
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 1,945
Count in 2025: 33

Names similar to Clarabelle

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

Sibling names for Clarabelle

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

For a sister

Nelle Mathilda Rubie Enid Filomena Dovie Rowena Lovie

For a brother

Mose Wilber Rupert Ferdinand Freeman Rosario Aloysius Elroy

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