Clyde
Clyde is ranked 728th among boys in 2024 (359 births). Its best rank was 50th, in 1883.
- Rank in 2024
- #728down 7 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 3590.02% of boys
- Peak year
- 19203,069 births
- Best rank
- #50in 1883
- Since 1880
- 148,567people given the name
The story in the numbers
144,635 boys have been named Clyde in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 3,069 births — 0.29% of all boys recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 806 → 728).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1935, and the 1920s alone account for 20%. It has spent 130 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 59 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 3,932 girls have also been given it, 2.6% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Clyde | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 3,034 | |
| 1890s | 3,625 | |
| 1900s | 4,524 | |
| 1910s | 19,864 | |
| 1920s | 28,957 | |
| 1930s | 22,452 | |
| 1940s | 20,710 | |
| 1950s | 17,907 | |
| 1960s | 9,070 | |
| 1970s | 4,381 | |
| 1980s | 2,812 | |
| 1990s | 1,686 | |
| 2000s | 1,304 | |
| 2010s | 2,491 | |
| 2020s | 1,818 |
In 1920, its biggest year
Clyde was the 68th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1920 were John, William, Robert, James and Charles. See all of 1920.
Names that rose and fell with Clyde
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Alfredpeak 1928
- Earnestpeak 1926
- Elbertpeak 1920
- Ernestpeak 1921
- Louispeak 1921
- Hermanpeak 1921
- Floydpeak 1926
- Vernpeak 1920
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.