Klark
- Last seen for girls in 2020 at #15,088
- #12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
- Given to boys 85.1% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 1964 · 8 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 137since 1964
Klark over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #12,008 | 5 | |
| 2024 | — | #12,349 | 5 | |
| 2023 | — | #5,927 | 15 | |
| 2022 | — | — | ||
| 2021 | — | #8,825 | 8 | |
| 2020 | #15,088 | 5 | #9,554 | 7 |
| 2019 | #12,448 | 7 | #8,889 | 8 |
| 2018 | — | #8,154 | 9 | |
| 2017 | #14,124 | 6 | #6,060 | 14 |
| 2016 | — | #10,744 | 6 | |
| 2015 | — | #7,066 | 11 | |
| 2014 | — | #8,781 | 8 | |
| 2013 | #14,582 | 6 | — | |
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| 2008 | — | #12,553 | 5 | |
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| 2005 | — | #10,151 | 6 | |
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| 2002 | — | #10,667 | 5 | |
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| 1967 | — | #3,966 | 5 | |
| 1966 | — | #3,249 | 7 | |
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| 1964 | — | #3,050 | 8 | |
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First appearance
1964
The first year at least five boys were named Klark! It came in at #3,050, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1965, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Klark is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Klark in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Klark
Momentum · boys
Falling
- 341 spots since 2024 (#12,349 → #12,008)
- 2,454 spots since 2020 (#9,554 → #12,008)
- 4,942 spots since 2015 (#7,066 → #12,008)
Rise & fade · boys
Peaked on debut
- Debuted 1964
- Peaked 1964 at #3,050 (8 births)
- Births halved by 1965, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 114,038
- Highest: 1 in 114,038 boys born in 2023 were named Klark (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 341,615 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #3,050 in 1964, was only 1 in 249,087 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 40.9% of all boys named Klark (56) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2014
- Mostly girls until 2013, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 20 | #3,050 (1964) | #3,422 |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 5 | #8,117 (1990) | #8,117 |
| 2000s | 16 | #10,151 (2005) | #11,124 |
| 2010s | 56 | #6,060 (2017) | #8,282 |
| 2020s | 40 | #5,927 (2023) | #9,733 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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