Clifford
Clifford is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 142 births. Its best rank was 57th, in 1909.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1420.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 19253,424 births
- Best rank
- #57in 1909
- Since 1880
- 190,128people given the name
The story in the numbers
188,109 boys have been named Clifford in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1925, with 3,424 births — 0.31% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 142 births in 2024, against 3,424 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1944, and the 1920s alone account for 17%. It has spent 126 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 65 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 2,019 girls have also been given it, 1.1% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Clifford | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 1,552 | |
| 1890s | 2,701 | |
| 1900s | 4,055 | |
| 1910s | 20,886 | |
| 1920s | 31,242 | |
| 1930s | 23,101 | |
| 1940s | 25,822 | |
| 1950s | 29,861 | |
| 1960s | 19,263 | |
| 1970s | 11,764 | |
| 1980s | 9,556 | |
| 1990s | 4,295 | |
| 2000s | 1,895 | |
| 2010s | 1,415 | |
| 2020s | 701 |
In 1925, its biggest year
Clifford was the 59th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1925 were Robert, John, William, James and Charles. See all of 1925.
Names that rose and fell with Clifford
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Ralphpeak 1921
- Laurencepeak 1952
- Lloydpeak 1918
- Howardpeak 1921
- Carlpeak 1956
- Leonardpeak 1921
- Francispeak 1918
- Alvispeak 1924
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.