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Clint

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Clint is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 56 births. Its best rank was 195th, in 1980.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
560.00% of boys
Peak year
19801,274 births
Best rank
#195in 1980
Since 1880
32,673people given the name
Babies named Clint, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

32,673 boys have been named Clint in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1980, with 1,274 births.

The name has all but left use: 56 births in 2024, against 1,274 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1978, and the 1970s alone account for 28%. It has spent 114 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadeboys named Clint
1880s174
1890s145
1900s182
1910s428
1920s531
1930s450
1940s665
1950s2,137
1960s4,508
1970s9,088
1980s7,485
1990s3,994
2000s1,259
2010s1,165
2020s462

In 1980, its biggest year

Clint was the 195th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1980 were Michael, Christopher, Jason, David and James. See all of 1980.

Names that rose and fell with Clint

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.