Masculine dossier · first seen 1897

Clearence

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Clearence
Creator: Social Security Administration

Extinct Near statistical disappearance

Peak era

1927

Peak rank proxy

Current vitality

Dormant

Generation

Greatest Generation

1897Peak 19272024

Peak year

1927

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

1,427

Clearence has moved from ordinary use into the archive. Its peak belongs most strongly to the Greatest Generation naming world, and its absence today gives the name the strange clarity of a cultural fossil.

Your name peaked in 1927, when 58 boys were named Clearence.

No boys were recorded with this name in 2024 — at least not five of them (the SSA's reporting floor).

Down 100% from its peak.

All told, about 1,427 Americans have been named Clearence and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1897.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationGreatest Generation

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryNear statistical disappearance

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