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Claribel

#11,150 in 2025Girls' name

Bright, shining, clear, through Clara

Claribel has been given to 2,977 babies in the U.S. since 1881. In 2025 it ranked #11,150 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1984, with 117 recorded.

Babies named Claribel, 2025

1 in 414,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Claribel: meaning, origin, and history

Bright, shining, clear, through Clara

Latin

What Claribel means

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

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

A fanciful variant of Clara, inspired by names like Annabel, Christabel or Isabel.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Claribel (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Claribel is used in English. Its origins include Latin.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Clara.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Claribel is pronounced /ˈklɛəɹəbɛl/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,977 girls were recorded with the name Claribel between 1881 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 117 in 1984; its best national rank was #635 in 1881.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,043 in 2020 to #11,150 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,709 in 2015 to #11,150 in 2025.

How common is Claribel?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 201,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#11,150
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Claribel 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Claribel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Claribels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Claribel was born before 1973 — so the typical Claribel is around 52 today.

Median birth year
1973
About 52 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
15.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
13.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,766
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 15.1% of all recorded uses (451).

Is Claribel 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
−3,481
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−6,107
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,441
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.53×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
6.8%
Peak was 1984 (117)
Years since peak
41
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#635
1881

Spellings of Claribel

Claribel is not the most common spelling — Clarice is, with 44.8% against Claribel's 5.2%.

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 Claribel is used

Across 1910–2025, Claribel was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 72,882 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 25,000
  2. 2California1 in 50,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in 100,000
  4. 4New Jersey1 in 100,000
  5. 5Ohio1 in 100,000
  6. 6Texas1 in 100,000
  7. 7Indiana1 in —
  8. 8Michigan1 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. Claribel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Claribel around the world

Where Claribel 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
    2023–2023
    #5,688
    in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Claribel by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,150
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 6,107
Best rank ever
#635
1881
Peak year
1984
117 that year
First recorded
1881
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,977
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Claribel

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

ClarabelClarisseClarisaClairaClaritaClarenceClarityClarabelleClarindaClarkeClaudieClarethaClarettaClarineClaudineClaudetteClarisClarissaClassieClairClaudeneClariceClariseClaudina

Names with a curve like Claribel

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Claribel, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

VashtiSantinaStephaniaDominicaAntoninaDomenicaCelestinaJesusChristenaStasiaGladisOlympia

Sibling names for Claribel

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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