Clarice

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Clarice: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #374 in 2002, and it stood at #4,843 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
33times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#374highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#717
1997	#850
1998	#1076
1999	#1060
2000	#1389
2001	#753
2002	#842
2003	#1472
2004	#1383
2005	#1796
2006	#1660
2007	#1741
2008	#1516
2009	#3422
2010	#2589
2011	#3185
2012	#2521
2013	#2887
2014	#2659
2015	#3252
2016	#3214
2017	#4063
2018	#3985
2019	#5591
2020	#3117
2021	#4634
2022	#3970
2023	#3598
2024	#4843

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 · Girls

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

In 2003: #655 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1472 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #717 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2000–2003
Highest recorded position: #374 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2002 (recorded 2000–2003).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #4843 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Clarice appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 360 births with the name.

Clarice across 2 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.

Clarice'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 · Girls	#717 (1996)	#717 (1996)	#4843 (2024)	29 of 29	360 (1996–2024)	33 (2001)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#465 (2000)	#374 (2002)	#655 (2003)	4 of 4	18 (2000–2003)	7 (2002)

Clarice by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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 Clarice in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	96	4 of 10	24
2000sbusiest	168	10 of 10	17
2010s	70	10 of 10	7
2020s	26	5 of 10	5

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 17 births a year.

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

Clarice 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 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #374 in Republic of Ireland in 2002.

Clarice'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	female	#4843	4	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#3598	6	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#3970	5	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#4634	4	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#3117	7	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#5591	3	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#3985	5	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#4063	5	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#3214	7	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#3252	7	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2659	9	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#2887	8	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2521	10	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#3185	7	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2589	9	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#3422	6	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1516	18	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1741	14	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1660	14	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1796	12	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1383	16	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1472	14	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#842	28	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#753	33	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1389	13	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1060	19	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1076	19	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#850	26	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#717	32	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#655	3	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	female	#374	7	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	female	#498	4	High	Verified
2000	Republic of Ireland	female	#465	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #374, first reached in 2002.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 33 births, registered in England and Wales in 2001.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2000, and 4 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.

Clare · #45, 62y
Clarence · #1545, 24y
Clarissa · #301, 32y
Clarisse · #764, 19y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 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.

Orson · #374, 27y
Nabil · #375, 29y
Nelson · #375, 29y
Sive · #373, 32y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Alexandre · #374, 30y
Orson · #374, 27y
Aden · #375, 29y
Anisah · #375, 27y

Clarice was ranked #374 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 2002. 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.

Clarice 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 Clarice without appearing here.

Clarice moved ahead of

Cheryl Compare
In 2019 they stood at #5591 and #2286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #3117 and #5493.
Donna Compare
In 2021 they stood at #4634 and #4634 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #3970 and #5669.
Kirsten Compare
In 2020 they stood at #5591 and #5591 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #4634 and #5581.
Tyler Compare
In 2020 they stood at #5591 and #4001 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #4634 and #5581.

Moved ahead of Clarice

Meabh Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3117 and #3447 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #4634 and #1286.
Diane Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3117 and #3899 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #4634 and #2499.
Yvonne Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3985 and #5666 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #5591 and #3541.
Elaine Compare
In 2008 they stood at #1516 and #1718 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #3422 and #1526.

Moved the opposite way to Clarice

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Clarice went from #717 to #4843 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Clarice went from #717 to #4843 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Clarice went from #717 to #4843 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Clarice went from #717 to #4843 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Clarice

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Clarice went from #717 to #4843 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Clarice went from #717 to #4843 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Clarice went from #717 to #4843 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Clarice went from #717 to #4843 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

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 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #374 in Republic of Ireland in 2002. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Clarice

Clarice at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Clarice across 2 official records

Clarice by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Clarice across 2 official records

Clarice by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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