Clark (given name)

Clark
Actor Clark Gable in 1937.
GenderPrimarily masculine
Language(s)English via Latin
Origin
Meaningclerk
William Clark, Meriwether Lewis, and Sacagawea at Three Forks, Montana, a detail of a mural by Edgar Samuel Paxson in the lobby of the Montana State Capitol.

Clark or Clarke is a given name, a transferred use of the English occupational surname derived from the Latin word clericus, meaning clerk. The name has been in use as a given name in the Anglosphere since the 1600s.[1]

  1. ^ Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006). Oxford Dictionary of First Names. Oxford University Press. p. 58. ISBN 0-19-861060-2.