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Nickname options: Clare, Claren, Laren, Clancy, Lance, Larry, Ren, Renny, Lorne... probably others.
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My husband loves this name. He isn't usually into vintage names, but he finds this one so charming. I don't like it quite as much as he does... it doesn't have a whole lot of nicknames, and it sounds feminine to some people due to the "Claire" association. However, it reminds us of "It's a Wonderful Life" which is a fantastic movie. Clarence was a super popular name back 100 years ago, so it fits the vintage name trend even if it isn't trending itself at the moment. "Ren" is a decent nickname (It's the name of Kevin Bacon's character in Footloose), and "Clancy" is another option-- there's a hamburger chain in our state called "Clancy's" so it's not unheard of.
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This name always reminds me of Clarence from These Happy Golden Years. And vaguely of birds and toothpaste. I think it's a nice name.
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I think this is a wonderful, soft, but elegant and charismatic name—Ren and Clare are great nicknames for it :)
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Clarence Thomas is an American Supreme Court Justice.
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The Anthony Mackie character from "8 Mile", Papa Doc's real name is revealed to be Clarence.
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I hate this name so much I can’t stand it. It’s ugly, tacky, and an old man name. Ughhhhhhh.
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Agh this name is so sweet and vintage! Another old man name I’m in love with. I mean, we all love Clara, so what’s so bad about Clarence? And “It’s a Wonderful Life” is one of the best movies in existence, so that’s a great association.
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Clarence was my grandfather's first name (1936-2005). When I took a male name as a trans man, I decided on this one. I believe he would have supported me and have been proud for me carry his name. I am also carrying on an important tradition in transgender names: sci-fi hacker names for transfems and melancholy-afflicted Victorian ghost names for transmascs.
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This is really close to clearance, which is not a bad thing. The root name Claire means clear.
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My birth name was Clarence. My mom named me after her brother. Sadly my mom was physically, and emotionally abusive and I was taken by the courts and placed in foster care at the age of 6. At an early age I suffered from a lazy eye, so I was nicknamed “Clarence-the-cross-eyed-Lion” after a tv show called “Daktari” in which a cross-eyed lion is the main character, building odd the lion research people in the 1960’s in Africa. My own siblings didn’t know how to spell my name, and most Clarence’s I know—other than my uncle—are black. I’m not. Likewise, in Canada—French-Canada, Clarence is also female, so I’m constantly ridiculed with the pharmacists and others calling for “made Clarence” or “madame Plourde, which is my family name. I tell people to call me what they have called me since 1976, which is CJ, but French Canadians abhor nicknames, they can’t stand it. Then there are the French Canadian friends who insist on calling me Clarence even though they know I abhor it…another symptom of French-Canadian ignorance. If I could I would have changed my name decades ago. I now tell people that Clarence is my dead name, like names no longer used by trans men and women. Sadly, most don’t seem to understand that either.
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I might be in the minority here, but I think this name is really charming, sophisticated and nice. I know it's a male name but I still think it might suit a girl, too.
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Absolutely Lovely!
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This name doesn't hit the spot.
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This should be a unisex name, like Florence.
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Homey but good-natured.
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In the Disney XD cartoon "Kick Buttowski", Clarence is the titular main character's name.
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It sounds feminine and has an ugly sound.
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I don't like this. Ugh, what a horrible name.
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Blegh!
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Clarry, Clair, Clancy, Ren and Rens are potential nicknames.
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Gross, and it is an old man sounding name.
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For a long time I thought of this name as a girl's name, mainly because whenever I came across the name it was never attached to any fictional character or person I knew of. Not until that cartoon Clarence came out. It still feels feminine to me.
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My name is Claire, and I hate this name because an annoying boy at school asked me if my real name was Clarence! I mean really!
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Clarence Wendel is a character from the show “Clarence” on Cartoon Network.
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This is my dad's name! So if I ever have a boy there's a great chance this would be his middle name. I think it has a kind of feminine aura to it for a boy's name (because of the similarity to Claire probably) and I like that!
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If it wasn't too close to Clearance, like the sale, then I would think about it as a name for if I ever have a son.
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In 2018, 63 is the most common age for an American (U.S.) Clarence who is registered male with the Social Security Administration. It is the 358th most common male first name for living U.S. citizens.
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Too close to clearance.
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The New Orleans bluesman, Clarence "Frogman" Henry and singer-songwiter Clarence Carter from Alabama both bear this name. So did the multi-instrumentalist from Texas and Louisiana, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown.
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Clarence William Delgado commonly known and familiar as Clarence, Filipino child actor. He was discovered by Star Circle Quest 2011 where he came out as The Male Winner. He is part of the gag show Goin Bulilit and he's also part of Kathryn Bernardo and Julia Montes movie entitled Way Back Home.
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The name Clarence was given to 180 boys born in the US in 2015.
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I adore this name! I know it's old, but I love it and its meaning.
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Clay would make a decent nickname for Clarence.
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American actor Lee Van Cleef (1925-89) was born Clarence Leroy Van Cleef.
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I really love this name! To me it sounds like an adorable name. I made a character with this name too. I recommend this name, it's really good. It doesn't sound very 'geeky' to me. I don't know why everyone says that..
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Clarence Oveur, the name of the pilot in the movie 'Airplane!'. It sounds like, "clearance, over" which causes confusion in the cockpit.
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The name Clarence was given to 190 baby boys born in the US in 2012.0.
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Clarence Thomas is a Supreme Court Justice.
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This name always reminds me of Clarence, the blue hand puppet in the old MTV show "Wonder Showzen". "Wonder Showzen" is a show for adults that parodizes children's programming. In his skits, Clarence goes around annoying random people on the street... and in my opinion, it's pretty funny. :) haha.
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The late 19th century rise in popularity for this name was probably due to Queen Victoria's elder grandson, prince Albert Victor (1864-1892), duke of Clarence and Avondale.
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Clarence was the name of the cross-eyed lion in the tv series Daktari which was based on the movie "Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion".
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Very old-fashioned, elitist, snobby, and rather geeky-sounding on a kid today. Resembles so-called virtue names, and thus has a bit of a feminine feel to it, even though I'd hate this on females.
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Clarence is a female name in France.
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Also borne by American laywer and defence attorney Clarence Seward Darrow (b. 18 April 1857 - d. 13 March 1938), who was present in the Leopold and Loeb trial and the John Scopes trial in the 1920s. Darrow was played in various films by Spencer Tracy, Henry Fonda, and Orson Welles.
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Clarence Birdseye (b. 9 December 1886 - d. 7 October 1956) was an American inventor who founded the "Birds Eye" frozen food industry in the 1920s.
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Clarence is the middle name of one of CS Lewis' characters in "Chronicles of Narnia." Eustace Clarence Scrubb.
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Clarence is the name of Quentin Tarantino's finest character, the "you're SO cool" hero of "True Romance".
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A famous bearer of this name is Clarence Day, author of 'Life with Father'.
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This is the masculine variant of the name Clare.
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Clarence Oddbody was George Bailey's guardian angel in the movie "It's a Wonderful Life."
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A famous bearer is Clarence Clemons who played sax in Springsteen's E. Street Band.
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The name Clarence became popular around the end of the 19th century, and was the 17th most popular name for a boy in 1900. I think it came from the title used by one of Queen Victoria's sons, the Duke of Clarence. My husband's father, born in 1920 has the name, and he was named after his father born in 1898. His father was the first in the family to use the name of Clarence. The name Clarence also rhymes with the name Florence which was an extremely popular name for girls at the end of the 18th century.
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