Clash

A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — one syllable, given to 6 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
6
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Clash by the numbers

Clash was given to 6 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its best year in America so far is the most recent one on record, which means it was still climbing when the records end.

What we can tell you about Clash

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Clash. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Cash1,270 in the US (2017)
  • Crash6 in the US (2017)
  • Chaseto hunt; one who hunts4,207 in the US (2017)
  • Clarkclerk or scribe875 in the US (2017)
  • Cylaspossibly from Silvanus or chosen; a form of Silas46 in the US (2017)
  • Clairclear or bright; short form of Claire29 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Clash

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