Clarie
Feminine
Clarie is a spelling of one of the oldest women's names in European use, and the saint behind it holds one of the more unexpected modern patronages. She was assigned to television, in the nineteen-fifties, for a reason that is genuinely in the medieval sources.
How old is the name Clarie?
Clarie first appears in US birth records in 1902 — 123 years ago. The typical Clarie alive today was born around 1954, making them about 71 years old. About 500 people named Clarie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Clarie most popular?
Clarie peaked in 1902, reaching #1320 nationally. See the whole 1902 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Clarie
Clare of Assisi left a wealthy family to follow Francis, founded an order of women who owned nothing at all, and spent forty years arguing with successive popes to be allowed to keep the poverty she had chosen. She won, days before she died. The television patronage comes from a story in her canonization records: too ill to attend Mass, she is said to have seen and heard the service on the wall of her room. A pope in the nineteen-fifties, looking for a patron for the new medium, picked her for it, which is how a thirteenth-century woman who refused to own furniture ended up on the letterhead of broadcasting associations.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The Latin name behind it means bright or clear, and that reading is settled for Clara and Clare. Whether this spelling descends from one of them or was built on the sound is not recorded.
Pronouncing Clarie
KLAIR-ee
Two syllables with the stress in front. Some readers try KLAR-ee, and the spelling does not settle it.
Nicknames for Clarie
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
- 1902
- Most girls named
- 199119 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1320reached in 1902
- Change vs 2019
- +80.0%9 in 2021, from 5
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.
Clarie in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Chiara in Italian — same name
- Claire in French — same name
- Clara in Spanish — same name
Claries among us
people named Clarie 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
Clarie 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
- The name behind it is ancient, documented and used across Europe.
- Clare comes off it as a short form and is a complete name on its own.
- It is read correctly at first sight by nearly everybody.
- Clarie, Clarrie and Claree are all in the record, so the spelling will be checked back with you.
- It reads as an affectionate form to some people, so formal settings will ask what it stands for.
- No origin is documented for this spelling, so the meaning question belongs to the shorter name.
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Frequently asked
- How many Claries are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Clarie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Clarie in 2025?
- Clarie is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Clarie with classmates?
- Clarie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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