Clarene
Feminine
Clarene can be read as Clara with an ending or as a woman's version of Clarence, and nothing in the record chooses. Both rest on the Latin word for clear, which produced an unexpectedly large family in English — including an instrument that has vanished and left one phrase behind.
How old is the name Clarene?
Clarene first appears in US birth records in 1909 — 116 years ago. The typical Clarene alive today was born around 1937, making them about 88 years old. About 300 people named Clarene are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Clarene most popular?
Clarene peaked in 1937, reaching #1389 nationally. See the whole 1937 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Clarene
A clarion was a real instrument: a short trumpet with a narrow bore, higher and more piercing than the long military trumpet, used for signals precisely because the sound cut through noise. The name is the Latin word for clear with an ending on it, and the whole point of the thing was that you could hear it. It went out of use as brass instruments changed, and by the time anyone alive had heard one the word had drifted into a stock phrase — a clarion call — which is now almost the only place it appears, generally used by people who could not describe the instrument if asked. The related word clarinet means a little clarion, which is misleading: the two are not related as instruments at all, and the clarinet's own lowest register is still named after a different folk pipe it replaced.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The Latin adjective for clear or bright lies behind every candidate, so the general sense is not in doubt; which name this one was built from is. Clara with a lengthening, Clarence feminised and a free build from the sound are all possible, and the registers do not say.
Pronouncing Clarene
kluh-REEN
Two syllables with the stress at the back. Some families say KLAIR-een instead, keeping the front stress of the shorter name, and both are heard.
Nicknames for Clarene
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1909
- Most girls named
- 193728 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1389reached in 1937
- Change vs 1962
- −25.0%6 in 1963, from 8
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Clarenes among us
people named Clarene are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Clarene sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Both halves detach as short forms and neither sounds like the other.
- The sense behind it — clear, bright — is plain and needs no explaining.
- It is rare without containing anything a reader has to be taught.
- Clarine, Clareen and Clarene are all recorded and the spelling will need giving.
- Stress placement is genuinely unsettled, so strangers will say it two ways.
- Nothing records which name it came from, so the origin has two answers and no evidence.
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- How many Clarenes are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 300 people named Clarene are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Clarene in 2025?
- Clarene is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Clarene will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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