Cliff
Cliff is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 41 births. Its best rank was 358th, in 1886.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 410.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1959310 births
- Best rank
- #358in 1886
- Since 1880
- 9,265people given the name
The story in the numbers
9,265 boys have been named Cliff in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1959, with 310 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1961, and the 1960s alone account for 21%. It has spent 93 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Cliff | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 132 | |
| 1890s | 157 | |
| 1900s | 194 | |
| 1910s | 357 | |
| 1920s | 404 | |
| 1930s | 545 | |
| 1940s | 910 | |
| 1950s | 1,568 | |
| 1960s | 1,976 | |
| 1970s | 1,061 | |
| 1980s | 1,082 | |
| 1990s | 323 | |
| 2000s | 173 | |
| 2010s | 194 | |
| 2020s | 189 |
In 1959, its biggest year
Cliff was the 456th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1959 were Michael, David, James, John and Robert. See all of 1959.
Names that rose and fell with Cliff
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Toneypeak 1961
- Lenpeak 1960
- Perrypeak 1959
- Leepeak 1951
- Davepeak 1959
- Lonniepeak 1947
- Alpeak 1959
- Martinpeak 1963
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.