Clarity
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- KLAIR-i-tee
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #1,758 for girls
Clarity is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “clearness”. In 2025 it ranked 1,758th for girls in the US (115 babies).
What does Clarity mean?
English: English word name, from Latin claritas
“clearness”
An English word name, from Latin claritas, 'clearness, brightness'.
Is Clarity a girl's or a boy's name?
Clarity is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 115 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Clarity in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,758th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 115 about 1 in 14,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 27% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 115 girls in the US were named Clarity, making it the 1,758th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,416th. It first appears in the records in 1977.
2025 had the most girls named Clarity of any year since it first appeared, in 1977.
Half of all the girls named Clarity in the US since 1880 were born between 2013 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 465 girls in the US were given Clarity or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #628, up from #1,758 for this spelling alone.
- Klarity 344
- Clarity 115
- Klariti 6
Clarity in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 115 | #1,758 |
| 2024 | 58 | #2,857 |
| 2023 | 57 | #2,936 |
| 2022 | 68 | #2,579 |
| 2021 | 65 | #2,638 |
| 2020 | 72 | #2,416 |
| 2019 | 59 | #2,814 |
| 2018 | 50 | #3,200 |
| 2017 | 59 | #2,835 |
| 2016 | 36 | #4,082 |
| 2015 | 51 | #3,211 |
| 2014 | 64 | #2,712 |
| 2013 | 38 | #3,916 |
| 2012 | 28 | #4,955 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,115 |
| 2010 | 26 | #5,245 |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,314 |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,127 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,094 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,606 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,123 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,072 |
| 2003 | 6 | #13,837 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,240 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,095 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,024 |
| 1999 | 6 | #12,681 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,116 |
| 1997 | 7 | #10,831 |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,514 |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 0 | – |
| 1979 | 0 | – |
| 1978 | 0 | – |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,650 |
Names like Clarity
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Everly, Legacy, Royalty, Blakely, Collins, Oakley, Emery, Waverly, Emberly, Journey, Kinsley, Kennedy
Other spellings of Clarity
Names related to Clarity
More English names
Lily, Evelyn, Hudson, Ivy, Harper, Grace, Violet, Willow, Daisy, Poppy, Riley, Mason, Cooper, Ruby, Hallie, Hazel
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Clarity: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/clarity, updated 20 October 2026.