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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Clark

Recorded for both sexesGen X

2025 rank

#377

up +60 places

2025 births

837

up +111 births

All-time births

50,851

2% of them in 2025

More common than

99%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1961
879 births
Best rank
#176
in 1881
First recorded
1880
#237 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1970
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
146 of 146
unbroken

Top five years

  1. 1961879#268Peak
  2. 2015868#372
  3. 2016867#378
  4. 2017861#381
  5. 2018855#376

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #176 in 1881 · peak births 879 in 1961

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 99% boys■ 1% girls

50,851 boys · 354 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 Clark has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.