Klarity
Feminine · Latin roots · “clarity”
Klarity is the English word clarity, respelled with the K that English borrowed long ago from Greek and German and now uses freely in given names. Behind the word sits Latin claritas, brightness or clearness, from clarus — the same root that gave us Clara, Clare and Claire. So a very new name rests on a very old syllable, and it says its own meaning out loud.
How old is the name Klarity?
Klarity first appears in US birth records in 2011 — 14 years ago. Klarity is overwhelmingly a brand-new baby name right now — most Klaritys are still in diapers. About 600 people named Klarity are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Klarity most popular?
Klarity peaked in 2025, reaching #788 nationally. Today it ranks #788, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
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Where it comes from
From clarus (Latin) to Klarity
The story of Klarity
English has been turning abstract nouns into given names since at least the Puritan era, when Verity, Prudence and Mercy were entered in parish registers as plainly as any saint's name. Klarity belongs to the modern continuation of that habit, alongside Serenity and Destiny, and takes the extra step of swapping C for K — a substitution American parents have applied to Kayla, Kaitlyn, Kloe and many more. Its Latin ancestor claritas traveled into English through Old French clarté, and the older personal forms of the same root, Clara and Claire, have been in continuous use for centuries. In US records Klarity is a recent arrival and has been climbing, with its strongest footing in Florida, Texas and Georgia.
Meaning
clarity; clearness, brightness
From Latin claritas 'brightness, clearness', from clarus 'clear, bright' — the root behind Clara, Clare and Claire. Klarity is the English abstract noun with a K in place of the C.
How the name formed
- clarusLatin
- claritasLatin
- clartéOld French
- clarityEnglish
- Klarity
Related forms: Clarity · Clare · Claire · Klara · Chiara · Clara
Pronouncing Klarity
KLAIR-ih-tee
Said exactly like the word clarity, stress on the first syllable. Some speakers say KLAR-ih-tee, matching how they say the word itself.
Nicknames for Klarity
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
- 2011
- Most girls named
- 2025344 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #788reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +295.4%344 in 2025, from 87
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.
Klarity in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Clarity in English — spelling variant
- Clare in English — related form
- Claire in French — related form
- Klara in German — related form
- Chiara in Italian — related form
- Clara in Spanish — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Florida, Texas, Georgia.
Klaritys among us
people named Klarity are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 4,672 born in 2025 was named Klarity
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Klarity
- #788
- Klarity on the 2025 chart
- #540
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Klarity went to 344 girls in 2025, but Clarity 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 — 248 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 4,672 for Klarity 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 Lidia test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Klarity's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Lidia climbed just as high around 1937, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Lidia's path sketches the road Klarity is walking now.
Klarity 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 Klarity is headed
Klarity is on a steep climb — if the curve holds, 2030 could see around 99% more babies given the name than today. 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.
Klarity beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Klarity in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning needs no explanation — any English speaker reads it at first glance.
- Pronunciation follows straight from the spelling, because the word is already in everyone's vocabulary.
- It sits in a long English tradition of virtue and abstract-noun names, from Verity and Mercy to Serenity.
- Its root, Latin clarus, connects it to Clara, Claire and Chiara — familiar names in several languages.
- The K will need spelling out for life. People hear the word clarity and write it with a C, and forms, teachers and coffee cups will keep defaulting to Clarity.
- A word-name is read as a statement as well as a name, and clarity turns up in commercial language too — diamond grades, audio ads, insurance brands. Some families like that transparency; others find it a lot to carry.
- It is new enough that a child named Klarity will likely be the only one she meets, and there are few grown bearers to point to. That is either the appeal or the drawback, depending on which you want.
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Frequently asked
- How many Klaritys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Klarity are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Klarity?
- Klarity is the most-used spelling in US records — 344 of the 465 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Clarity and Klariti.
- How popular is the name Klarity in 2025?
- Klarity ranks #788 among US girl names in 2025, with 344 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Klarity?
- About 1 in every 4,672 US girls born in 2025 was named Klarity — 344 in all.
- Will my child share the name Klarity with classmates?
- Klarity will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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