Clarine
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Clarine has been given to 1,659 babies in the U.S. since 1900. 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 1923, with 63 recorded.
Babies named Clarine, 1975
1 in 377,000
Clarine 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Clarine?
Clarine had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1975, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1975
- 1 in 377,000
- 8 of 3,019,126 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 182,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1975
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 261,588 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Clarine sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1975 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 261,588 children born in 1975 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Clarine. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Clarines were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Clarine was born before 1929 — so the typical Clarine is around 96 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 31.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 11.3%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 210
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 31.8% of all recorded uses (527).
Is Clarine 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 1923 (63)
- Years since peak
- 102
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.8% average annual change
Spellings of Clarine
Clarine is not the most common spelling — Elaine is, with 39.2% against Clarine's 0.25%.
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 Clarine is used
Across 1910–2025, Clarine was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 146,486 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 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. Clarine has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Clarine around the world
Where Clarine 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.
- France1973–2011#6,668in 2011
- South Australia1997–1997#681in 1997
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Clarine by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Clarine
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Clarine
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.