Names/C

Clovis

boys’ name · 83%girls’ name · 17%RisingCompare

Clovis is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 11 births. Its best rank was 634th, in 1914.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
110.00% of boys
Peak year
191784 births
Best rank
#634in 1914
Since 1880
3,697people given the name
Babies named Clovis, by year of birthboysgirls
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The story in the numbers

3,070 boys have been named Clovis in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1917, with 84 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 1934, and the 1920s alone account for 21%. It has spent 41 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Clovis is used for both sexes: 17% of its bearers are girls (627), most of them born around 1923.

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 Clovis
1880s14
1890s50
1900s76
1910s511
1920s653
1930s492
1940s359
1950s270
1960s163
1970s127
1980s98
1990s51
2000s58
2010s89
2020s59

In 1917, its biggest year

Clovis was the 651st most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1917 were John, William, James, Robert and Joseph. See all of 1917.

Names that rose and fell with Clovis

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.