Clark

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Clark: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Clark: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #271, and it stood at #382 in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
44times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#271highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#620
1997	#759
1998	#887
1999	#1199
2000	#1552
2001	#983
2002	#950
2003	#1771
2004	#1222
2005	#919
2006	#814
2007	#848
2008	#894
2009	#884
2010	#774
2011	#812
2012	#704
2013	#514
2014	#355
2015	#414
2016	#380
2017	#390
2018	#446
2019	#491
2020	#568
2021	#751
2022	#746
2023	#827
2024	#945

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #382 among boys in Scotland, #404 among boys in Northern Ireland, #945 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #620 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1997–2024
Highest recorded position: #271 among boys in Northern Ireland, in 1997 (recorded 1997–2024).
Northern Ireland · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #945 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Clark appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,330 births with the name.

Clark across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Clark's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#620 (1996)	#355 (2014)	#945 (2024)	29 of 29	1,330 (1996–2024)	119 (2016)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#271 (1997)	#271 (1997)	#404 (2024)	9 of 28	31 (1997–2024)	4 (2010)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#699 (2015)	#631 (2021)	#770 (2023)	5 of 9	17 (2015–2023)	4 (2019)

Clark by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Clark in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	75	4 of 10	19
2000s	212	10 of 10	21
2010sbusiest	818	10 of 10	82
2020s	225	5 of 10	45

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 82 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2013 and 2014, when recorded births rose by 46, from 72 to 118.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Clark appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #271 in Northern Ireland in 1997.

Clark's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#945	33	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#827	39	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#746	44	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#751	45	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#568	64	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#491	80	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#446	92	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#390	114	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#380	119	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#414	101	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#355	118	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#514	72	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#704	47	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#812	37	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#774	38	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#884	31	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#894	30	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#848	31	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#814	31	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#919	24	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1222	15	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1771	8	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#950	18	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#983	16	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1552	8	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1199	11	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#887	17	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#759	21	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#620	26	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	male	#404	3	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	male	#352	4	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	male	#374	4	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	male	#392	3	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	male	#416	3	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	male	#415	3	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	male	#311	4	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	male	#339	4	High	Verified
1997	Northern Ireland	male	#271	3	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#770	3	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#631	4	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#646	4	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	male	#710	3	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	male	#699	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#382	9	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #271, first reached in 1997.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 119 births, registered in England and Wales in 2016.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1997, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Clarissa · #301, 32y
Clarisse · #764, 19y
Clarke · #262, 29y
Claude · #818, 27y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Yasmine · #271, 34y
Izabella · #272, 30y
Jacques · #272, 30y
Kalvin · #272, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Aedan · #271, 29y
Alister · #271, 28y
Amy-Leigh · #271, 24y
Benn · #271, 20y

Clark was ranked #271 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 1997. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Clark and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Clark without appearing here.

Clark moved ahead of

Geoffrey Compare
In 2004 they stood at #1222 and #1160 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #919 and #1851.
Barry Compare
In 2004 they stood at #1222 and #815 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #919 and #1617.
Glenn Compare
In 2004 they stood at #1222 and #1160 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #919 and #1534.
Ashleigh Compare
In 2000 they stood at #1552 and #881 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2001 that had become #983 and #1595.

Moved ahead of Clark

Ollie Compare
In 1998 they stood at #887 and #924 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1999 that had become #1199 and #655.
Jan Compare
In 1997 they stood at #759 and #809 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1998 that had become #887 and #502.
Oisin Compare
In 2020 they stood at #568 and #766 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2021 that had become #751 and #433.
Hudson Compare
In 2006 they stood at #814 and #885 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #848 and #538.

Moved the opposite way to Clark

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Clark went from #620 to #945 while Albie went from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Clark went from #620 to #945 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Clark went from #620 to #945 while Alfred went from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Clark went from #620 to #945 while Archie went from #192 to #10.

Moved the same way as Clark

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Clark went from #620 to #945 and Aaron from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Clark went from #620 to #945 and Adam from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Clark went from #620 to #945 and Alan from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Clark went from #620 to #945 and Alex from #43 to #171.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #271 in Northern Ireland in 1997. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Clark

Clark at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Clark across 3 official records

Clark by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Clark appears in

Popularity data

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Clark at a glance

Clark across 3 official records

Clark by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Clark appears in

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Clark

Clark and the names beside it

Clark moved ahead of

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