Clovis
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
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
By decade
| Decade | boys named Clovis | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 14 | |
| 1890s | 50 | |
| 1900s | 76 | |
| 1910s | 511 | |
| 1920s | 653 | |
| 1930s | 492 | |
| 1940s | 359 | |
| 1950s | 270 | |
| 1960s | 163 | |
| 1970s | 127 | |
| 1980s | 98 | |
| 1990s | 51 | |
| 2000s | 58 | |
| 2010s | 89 | |
| 2020s | 59 |
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.
- Olenpeak 1922
- Bufordpeak 1921
- Wilfredpeak 1920
- Hubertpeak 1924
- Milfordpeak 1921
- Russelpeak 1920
- Loydpeak 1926
- Haroldpeak 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.