Clare Girl
How popular is Clare?
#924 girl name in 2025
283 baby girls were named Clare in the US in 2025, making it the 924th most popular girl name.
Clare popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #924 for girls (▲ 24 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 283 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-27% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #728 in 2015, #830 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1998 (510 girls) |
| Highest rank | #320 in 1884 |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.2% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Clare counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Claire family of names ranked #78 for girls in 2025 (#86 the year before), with 3,861 babies in all.
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Clare is most popular
Babies named Clare per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Massachusetts: 0.5 per 1,000 (60 girls)
- Kansas: 0.5 per 1,000 (27 girls)
- Wisconsin: 0.4 per 1,000 (45 girls)
- Maryland: 0.4 per 1,000 (45 girls)
- Pennsylvania: 0.4 per 1,000 (91 girls)
Clare by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 277 | #320 |
| 1890s | 455 | #351 |
| 1900s | 607 | #408 |
| 1910s | 1,655 | #402 |
| 1920s | 2,339 | #432 |
| 1930s | 1,879 | #423 |
| 1940s | 2,128 | #474 |
| 1950s | 2,880 | #478 |
| 1960s | 2,245 | #538 |
| 1970s | 1,076 | #1,052 |
| 1980s | 2,039 | #709 |
| 1990s | 3,968 | #500 |
| 2000s | 4,396 | #535 |
| 2010s | 3,777 | #679 |
| 2020s | 1,735 | #830 |
Girl names about as popular as Clare
Questions
- Is Clare a boy or girl name?
- Clare is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Clare were girls.
- How popular is the name Clare?
- 283 baby girls were named Clare in the US in 2025, making it the 924th most popular girl name.
- When was Clare most popular?
- Clare peaked in 1998, when 510 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #320 in 1884.
- How many people are named Clare?
- 34,510 babies have been named Clare in the US since 1880. We estimate about 23,553 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 31.
- Where is Clare most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Clare was most common in Massachusetts, at 0.5 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.