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How popular is the name Clark?
Births per year, rank history and how many Clarks are alive today.
Clark (male) is an uncommon boys' name in England and Wales, ranked 845th in 2025 with 38 babies given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 2016, when 119 babies were given the name, the 380th most popular that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 945 in 2024 before climbing back to the 845th place it holds today. Numbers have been falling in recent years. Clark is one spelling of a name also recorded as Clarke; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Clark you are most likely to meet is around 10 years old. Half of all Clarks born in England and Wales are between 8 and 20, and there are at least 1,900 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Clark - on average, only one in every 160 such rooms contains a Clark.
How many babies are named Clark each year?
Includes all spellings: Clark, Clarke. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Clark spelling rank?
Where does the Clarke spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Clark most popular?
Clark peaked in 2016, when 143 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Clark?
At least 1,900 people named Clark in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Clark?
Most living Clarks are between 8 and 20; the most common age is about 10.
Is Clark becoming more or less popular?
Declining: numbers have been falling in recent years.