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