Name profile

Claribel

Combination of Clara and the common name suffix bel, from Latin bella "beautiful".

Usage languagesEnglish
US rank (2025)#10,917

Meaning and history

Claribel is a name formed from Clara and the common suffix bel, ultimately from Latin bella meaning “beautiful.” It appears in Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene (1590) as Claribell, in Shakespeare’s The Tempest (1611), and in Alfred Tennyson’s poem Claribel (1830).

Popularity over timeUS births · girls
20062006: 23 births, rank #5,709
2007: 12 births, rank #9,539
2008: 18 births, rank #7,073
2009: 23 births, rank #5,891
2010: 11 births, rank #9,790
20112011: 19 births, rank #6,564
2012: 15 births, rank #7,804
2013: 22 births, rank #5,834
2014: 13 births, rank #8,485
2015: 15 births, rank #7,613
20162016: 16 births, rank #7,230
2017: 16 births, rank #7,092
2018: 14 births, rank #7,762
2019: 16 births, rank #7,025
2020: 25 births, rank #5,003
20212021: 15 births, rank #7,250
2022: 13 births, rank #8,032
2023: 13 births, rank #8,055
2024: 14 births, rank #7,594
20252025: 8 births, rank #10,917

Claribel rose from #952 to #924 for girls between 1916 and 1917. That year also produced its highest recorded birth count, at 56.