Claribel
The girl's name Claribel has been in the national records since 1881, with 2,977 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 10,917th. About 1,700 Claribels are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 36.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Claribel
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,977
- Estimated living today
- 1,700
- Median age today
- 36
- Peak year
- 1984
- Best rank
- 1,157th
- Rank in 2025
- 10,917th
- First recorded
- 1881
How old the living Claribels are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,977 babies given the name since 1881, about 1,700 are alive — 58 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1989 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Latin
A fanciful variant of Clara, inspired by names like Annabel, Christabel or Isabel.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Claribels
- Claribel Alegría (1924–2018)Nicaraguan writer
People named Claribel with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Claribel is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Claribel is most concentrated in New York (5.1×), California (2.7×), Illinois (1.5×), New Jersey (1.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1984
The most popular girls’ names the year Claribel peaked:
Claribel elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Claribel | 3 | 5,687th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Where Claribel lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 396 women called Claribel were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lugo | Claribel | 9 | 0.054 | 1,039 |
| León | Claribel | 11 | 0.048 | 1,170 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Claribel | 26 | 0.047 | 1,607 |
| Navarra | Claribel | 12 | 0.035 | 1,643 |
| Palmas, Las | Claribel | 19 | 0.032 | 2,386 |
| Asturias | Claribel | 14 | 0.026 | 1,643 |
Listed in 20 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 32 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Claribel against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.