Clarke

Where Clarke comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Clarke.

  • Vowel-ended
Clarke through the years
  1. 1780
    Clarke Abel born
    British surgeon and naturalist
  2. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #809 among boys with 6 babies in the first year on record, and still its best.
  3. 1882
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1952
    Clarke Peters born
    American actor, singer, writer and director
  5. 2015
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name. From this year on, more girls have.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Clarke Abel · British surgeon and naturalist, 1780–1826
  • Clarke Peters · American actor, singer, writer and director, born 1952
  • Clarke Scholes · American swimmer, 1930–2010
  • Clarke Carlisle · English association football player, born 1979
  • Clarke MacArthur · Canadian ice hockey player, born 1985

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.