Claryce
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Claryce has been given to 215 babies in the U.S. since 1913. 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 1930, with 19 recorded.
Babies named Claryce, 2002
1 in 623,000
Claryce 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Claryce?
Claryce had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2002, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2002
- 1 in 623,000
- 6 of 3,737,275 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 299,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2002
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 431,748 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Claryce sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2002 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 431,748 children born in 2002 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Claryce. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Claryces were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Claryce was born before 1931 — so the typical Claryce is around 94 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1930s
- 40.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 2.8%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 16
- People you could plausibly meet
1930s — 40.0% of all recorded uses (86).
Is Claryce 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 1930 (19)
- Years since peak
- 95
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 54.2% average annual change
Spellings of Claryce
Claryce is not the most common spelling — Clare is, with 46.3% against Claryce's 0.32%.
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.
Claryce around the world
Where Claryce 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.
- France1998–2020#4,945in 2020
- South Australia2003–2003#739in 2003
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.
Claryce by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Claryce
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Claryce
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.