Clarion
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Clarion has been given to 123 babies in the U.S. since 1911. 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 1925, with 8 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 92% boys, 8% girls all-time.
Babies named Clarion, 1948
1 in 690,000
Clarion 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Clarion over time
In 1991, Clarion went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Clarion?
Clarion had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1948, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1948
- 1 in 690,000
- 5 of 3,452,053 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 351,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1948
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 478,557 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Clarion sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1948 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 478,557 children born in 1948 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Clarion. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Clarions were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Clarion was born before 1927 — so the typical Clarion is around 98 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 35.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 66.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 35.4% of all recorded uses (40).
Is Clarion 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
- —
- 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 1925 (8)
- Years since peak
- 100
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 12.0% average annual change
Spellings of Clarion
Clarion is not the most common spelling — Clayton is, with 37.2% against Clarion's 0.03%.
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.
Clarion by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Clarion
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Clarion
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.