Clarie
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Clarie has been given to 779 babies in the U.S. since 1902. 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 1987, with 19 recorded.
Babies named Clarie, 2021
1 in 377,000
Clarie over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Clarie?
Clarie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2021
- 1 in 377,000
- 9 of 3,389,958 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 182,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2021
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 261,083 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Clarie sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2021 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 261,083 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Clarie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Claries were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Clarie was born before 1958 — so the typical Clarie is around 67 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 14.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 20.8%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 421
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 14.0% of all recorded uses (109).
Is Clarie 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1987 (19)
- Years since peak
- 38
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 27.7% average annual change
Spellings of Clarie
Clarie is not the most common spelling — Marie is, with 30.0% against Clarie's 0.04%.
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 Clarie is used
Across 1910–2025, Clarie was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,851,917 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2New York1 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. Clarie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Clarie around the world
Where Clarie 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.
- Ireland1968–1971#417in 1971
- France1984–2022#6,709in 2022
Popularity data from Central Statistics Office and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Clarie by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Clarie
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Clarie
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.