Clarity
- #1,758 for girls in 2025, 115 births
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 115 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,014since 1977
Clarity over time
Rank among girls' names. Clarity has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,758 | 115 |
| 2024 | #2,857 | 58 |
| 2023 | #2,936 | 57 |
| 2022 | #2,579 | 68 |
| 2021 | #2,638 | 65 |
| 2020 | #2,416 | 72 |
| 2019 | #2,814 | 59 |
| 2018 | #3,201 | 50 |
| 2017 | #2,835 | 59 |
| 2016 | #4,083 | 36 |
| 2015 | #3,211 | 51 |
| 2014 | #2,714 | 64 |
| 2013 | #3,918 | 38 |
| 2012 | #4,957 | 28 |
| 2011 | #7,118 | 17 |
| 2010 | #5,247 | 26 |
| 2009 | #6,317 | 21 |
| 2008 | #6,130 | 22 |
| 2007 | #8,098 | 15 |
| 2006 | #10,611 | 10 |
| 2005 | #10,128 | 10 |
| 2004 | #7,077 | 16 |
| 2003 | #13,844 | 6 |
| 2002 | #10,246 | 9 |
| 2001 | #10,102 | 9 |
| 2000 | #15,031 | 5 |
| 1999 | #12,688 | 6 |
| 1998 | #14,122 | 5 |
| 1997 | #10,836 | 7 |
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| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 |
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| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Clarity! It came in at #9,652, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1977–1996, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Clarity is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Florida#864 · 1 in 4,820
- North Carolina#1,281 · 1 in 7,747
- Texas#1,352 · 1 in 8,919
- Illinois#1,405 · 1 in 8,866
- Ohio#1,438 · 1 in 9,454
Best ever in a state: #666 in Utah, 2018.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Florida | #864 | 18 | 1 in 4,820 |
| North Carolina | #1,281 | 6 | 1 in 7,747 |
| Texas | #1,352 | 18 | 1 in 8,919 |
| Illinois | #1,405 | 5 | 1 in 8,866 |
| Ohio | #1,438 | 5 | 1 in 9,454 |
| New York | #2,075 | 5 | 1 in 15,666 |
| California | #2,767 | 6 | 1 in 26,954 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Clarity
- 658 spots since 2020 (#2,416 → #1,758)
- Debuted 1977
- Peaked 2025 at #1,758 (115 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 13,976 girls born in 2025 were named Clarity (0.01%)
- 42.9% of all girls named Clarity (435) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1970s | 5 | #9,652 (1977) | #9,652 |
| 1980s | 5 | #10,517 (1982) | #10,517 |
| 1990s | 18 | #10,836 (1997) | #12,549 |
| 2000s | 123 | #6,130 (2008) | #9,758 |
| 2010s | 428 | #2,714 (2014) | #4,010 |
| 2020s | 435 | #1,758 (2025) | #2,531 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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