Clarke
A unisex name of Old English origin, meaning clerk, scholar; occupational name.
Clarke by the numbers
In 2025, 9 babies in England and Wales were named Clarke. In the US, 134 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in the US than in England and Wales.
Its best year in America so far is the most recent one on record, which means it was still climbing when the records end.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Clarke. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Clarybright and clear; a form of Claire or Clara18 in the US (2017)
Other names that mean a craft or trade
Like Clarke, each of these has a craft or trade in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Masonstone worker13,560 in the US (2017)
- Ameliawork, industriousness2,153 in England and Wales (2025)
- Graysonson of the steward8,767 in the US (2017)
- Penelopeweaver; wife of Odysseus1,174 in England and Wales (2025)
- Skylarscholar, learned one; a modern respelling of Schuyler4,984 in the US (2017)
- Chaseto hunt; one who hunts4,207 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Clarke
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