Clarkson
#12,400 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Clarkson has been given to 156 babies in the U.S. since 1915. In 2025 it ranked #12,400 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 16 recorded.
Babies named Clarkson, 2025
1 in 663,000
Clarkson 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Clarkson?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 342,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #12,400
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Clarkson sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Clarkson. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Clarksons were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Clarkson was born before 2013 — so the typical Clarkson is around 12 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 27.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 52.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 96
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 27.6% of all recorded uses (43).
Is Clarkson 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
- −2,313
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −3,513
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 31.3%
- Peak was 2019 (16)
- Years since peak
- 6
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.6% average annual change
Spellings of Clarkson
Clarkson is not the most common spelling — Carson is, with 98.1% against Clarkson's 0.12%.
Clarkson around the world
Where Clarkson 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.
- Canada2014–2018#2,281in 2018
Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Clarkson by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Clarkson
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Clarkson
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.