Girls' name · peaked in 1913

Clarice name popularity since 1925

17,096 babies born in the US from 1925 to 2025 were named Clarice. Half of them were born in 1944 or earlier, so the typical Clarice is about 82 years old in 2026. Clarice peaked in 1913 as the #258 name for girls, and it was outside the top 1,000 in 2025.

US babies since 1925: 17,096; Named Clarice, 1925–2025
Peak year: 1913; #258 for girls that year
Typical age: About 82; Median birth year 1944
In 2025: Not top 1,000; #3,111 for girls in 2025
Girls / boys: 99.6% girls; 17,025 girls · 71 boys
Most popular in: Minnesota; 3.00× its national share

Peak year is the year Clarice made up the largest share of US girls, in records going back to 1880. Typical age is based on births from 1925 on, not on who is living today.

Clarice births per year, 1925–2025

The biggest year on this chart was 1925. Measured as a share of all babies, Clarice peaked earlier, in 1913.

Steepest fall: Between 1958 and 1963, Clarice's share of baby girls fell by 51%, from 1 in 9,230 to 1 in 18,900.

Shaded on the chart. This compares Clarice's share of all US girls five years apart, counting only years with at least 100 babies named Clarice.

Decade by decade

Babies named Clarice in each decade, and its rank among girls' names in the middle year of the decade (1935, 1945 … 2025).

Decade	Girls	Boys	Rank
1925–29	2,826	36	–
1930s	4,224	35	#310
1940s	2,761	0	#508
1950s	2,324	0	#581
1960s	1,123	0	#1,014
1970s	870	0	#1,232
1980s	788	0	#1,764
1990s	753	0	#1,956
2000s	687	0	#2,505
2010s	420	0	#3,667
2020–25	249	0	#3,111

Ranks count every name given to at least 5 girls that year, so they can go past 1,000.

Generation fingerprint

41.7% of babies named Clarice from 1925 to 2025 were born in the Silent Generation years (1928–1945). The full split by generation:

Where Clarice is most popular

The index compares Clarice's share of babies in each state with its share nationwide, 1925–2025 (1.50× = 50% more common). States with at least 300 babies named Clarice.

State	Index	Babies
Minnesota	3.00×	692
Wisconsin	2.35×	585
Louisiana	1.79×	406
Alabama	1.77×	396
Virginia	1.46×	417

Names with a similar story

Of the other 1999 names on this site, these six had the share of babies closest in shape to Clarice's from 1925 to 2025, however common each one got. Each line is scaled to its own high; the dashed line is Clarice.

Names from the same era

Other common names that peaked within two years of Clarice (1913).

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration national and state baby-name data, which covers names given to at least 5 babies of one sex in a year. About the data