Clarity
Feminine · “clearness”
Clarity is clearness, and the Latin behind it is bright — clarus, which gives Clara, Clare, declare and clarion, all of them about being unmistakable.
How old is the name Clarity?
Clarity first appears in US birth records in 1977 — 48 years ago. The typical Clarity is a kid of about 7 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,000 people named Clarity are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Clarity most popular?
Clarity peaked in 2025, reaching #1758 nationally. Today it ranks #1758, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
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Where it comes from
From clarus to Clarity
The story of Clarity
Abstract virtue names have a long English history through the Puritan tradition, and the later twentieth century revived the category with Serenity, Destiny, Trinity and Harmony. Clarity is among the newer members, appearing in the American registers from the 2000s. It is in current use.
Meaning
clearness, brightness
From the Latin claritas, 'brightness' or 'clearness', from clarus, 'bright' or 'clear'. The same root gives Clara, Claire, declare, clarify and clarion. The English word is ordinary and the meaning transparent.
How the name formed
- clarus
- claritas
- clarity
- Clarity
Related forms: Clara · Clarté · Chiarezza
Pronouncing Clarity
KLAIR-ih-tee
Three syllables, stress on the first. It is a homophone of the ordinary English noun.
Nicknames for Clarity
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
- 1977
- Most girls named
- 2025115 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1758reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +98.3%115 in 2025, from 58
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.
Clarity in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Clara in English — related form
- Clarté in French — related form
- Chiarezza in Italian — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Florida.
Claritys among us
people named Clarity are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 13,976 born in 2025 was named Clarity
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Clarity
- #1758
- Clarity on the 2025 chart
- #540
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Clarity went to 115 girls in 2025, but Klarity and Klariti are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 465, which makes it the 540th most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,218 places above the chart.
- Klarity344
- Clarity115
- Klariti6
About 1 girl in 3,456 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 13,976 for Clarity itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Trenace test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Clarity's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Trenace climbed just as high around 1953, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Trenace's path sketches the road Clarity is walking now.
Clarity is climbing fast right now. Steep climbs tend to come with steep descents — the quicker a name arrives, the more firmly it belongs to its moment.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Clarity is headed
Clarity should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Clarity beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Clarity in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The brightness meaning is transparent and shares a root with Clara and Claire.
- It belongs to a documented and coherent family of virtue names.
- Three syllables with a front stress, which holds up against a short surname.
- It is an ordinary English noun and never reads as purely a name.
- Charity and Clarity are close enough to be misheard.
- It is very new as a given name.
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Frequently asked
- How many Claritys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Clarity are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Clarity?
- Clarity is one of 3 recorded spellings. Klarity is the more common one — 344 births in 2025 against 115 for Clarity.
- How popular is the name Clarity in 2025?
- Clarity ranks #1758 among US girl names in 2025, with 115 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Clarity?
- About 1 in every 13,976 US girls born in 2025 was named Clarity — 115 in all.
- Will my child share the name Clarity with classmates?
- Clarity will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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