Name meaning & stats
Clarke
Clarke means “clerk”. 4,668 US babies since 1940, peak 2021.
What it means
“clerk”
Well documented
In US birth records
Peak year: 2021
4,668 US babies were named Clarke between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Clarke (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
1 in 10 Clarks spell it Clarke
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 2021)