Clare
Recorded for both sexesGen X2025 rank
#924
up +25 places
2025 births
283
up +6 births
All-time births
31,456
1% of them in 2025
More common than
99%
of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1998
- 510 births
- Best rank
- #320
- in 1884
- First recorded
- 1880
- #435 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1972
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 146 of 146
- unbroken
Top five years
- 1998510#500Peak
- 1999507#509
- 2000485#535
- 2007473#630
- 2001460#562
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #320 in 1884 · peak births 510 in 1998
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 9% boys■ 91% girls
3,054 boys · 31,456 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Clare has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.