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Clea

#5,960 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Clea has been given to 825 babies in the U.S. since 1914. In 2025 it ranked #5,960 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Clea, 2025

1 in 166,000

Clea over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
010203018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Clea: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Clea means

Clea is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Clea is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 815 girls were recorded with the name Clea between 1914 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 26 in 2022; its best national rank was #2,896 in 1936.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,508 in 2020 to #5,960 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,068 in 2015 to #5,960 in 2025.

In the United States, 10 boys were recorded with the name Clea between 1921 and 1937. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1921; its best national rank was #3,609 in 1937.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Clea?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 166,000
20 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 80,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,960
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
114,896 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Clea 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 114,896 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Clea. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cleas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Clea was born before 1998 — so the typical Clea is around 27 today.

Median birth year
1998
About 27 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
16.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
45.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
674
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Choose a decade

2000s — 16.3% of all recorded uses (133).

Is Clea 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
−631
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,548
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,108
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.67×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
76.9%
Peak was 2022 (26)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,896
1936

Spellings of Clea

Clea is not the most common spelling — Ella is, with 14.0% against Clea'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.

Where Clea is used

Across 1910–2025, Clea was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 876,167 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Utah1 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. Clea has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Clea around the world

Where Clea 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #3,333
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2012–2012
    #815
    in 2012
  • Northern Ireland
    2025–2025
    #397
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2010–2012
    #907
    in 2012
  • France
    1968–2025
    #258
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2024
    #1,050
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1975–2010
    #801
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Clea by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,960
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,548
Best rank ever
#2,896
1936
Peak year
2022
26 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
815
Count in 2025
20

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,609
1937
Peak year
1921
5 that year
First recorded
1921
Last recorded
1937
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Clea

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

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Sibling names for Clea

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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