US BIRTHS · 1880–2025

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Clara name popularity

Clara has been given to 301,540 babies in the United States since 1880.

It peaked in 1918, when 5,800 babies got the name, and its best rank was #17 in 1890.

In 2025, 3,601 babies were named Clara (#169 in the country), 38% below the peak. That is up 17% from 2015.

Almost every Clara is a girl.

An estimated 104K people named Clara are alive in the US today, with a median age of 22.

It was a top-100 name in 46 of the 146 years on record.

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The chart is the number of US babies given the name each year, from the Social Security Administration’s public baby-name files (names given to 5+ babies in a year). The “all-time high” is the name’s biggest year. “Holders” and “median holder age” are rough estimates that apply average US survival rates to each birth year, so they ignore immigration and name changes.

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