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Clarity

#1,759 in 2025Girls' name

Clarity, lucidity

Clarity has been given to 1,014 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #1,759 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 115 recorded.

Babies named Clarity, 2025

1 in 28,800

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Clarity: meaning, origin, and history

Clarity, lucidity

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Clarity means

Clarity means “clarity, lucidity”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,014 girls were recorded with the name Clarity between 1977 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 115 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,759 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,421 in 2020 to #1,759 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,223 in 2015 to #1,759 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.

How common is Clarity?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 28,800
115 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 14,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,759
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
19,983 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Clarity 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 19,983 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Clarity. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Claritys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Clarity was born before 2018 — so the typical Clarity is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
42.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,014
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 42.9% of all recorded uses (435).

Is Clarity 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
+1,103
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+662
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,464
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.25×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (115)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,759
2025

Spellings of Clarity

Clarity is not the most common spelling — Charity is, with 35.5% against Clarity's 1.0%.

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 Clarity is used

Across 2016–2025, Clarity was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 37,210 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).

14 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 25,000
  2. 2California1 in 33,333
  3. 3Florida1 in 33,333
  4. 4Utah1 in 33,333
  5. 5Illinois1 in 50,000
  6. 6Michigan1 in 50,000
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 50,000
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 100,000

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.

Clarity around the world

Where Clarity 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.

  • Canada
    2014–2019
    #1,913
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    2009–2009
    #818
    in 2009

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Clarity by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,759
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 662
Best rank ever
#1,759
2025
Peak year
2025
115 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,014
Count in 2025
115

Names similar to Clarity

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

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Sibling names for Clarity

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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