Claiborne
Claiborne is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 5 births. Its best rank was 996th, in 1889.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 50.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 191827 births
- Best rank
- #996in 1889
- Since 1889
- 1,237people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,210 boys have been named Claiborne in the United States since 1889, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 27 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 1947, and the 1920s alone account for 16%. It has spent 1 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 27 girls have also been given it, 2.2% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Claiborne | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | |
| 1890s | 5 | |
| 1900s | 23 | |
| 1910s | 132 | |
| 1920s | 194 | |
| 1930s | 139 | |
| 1940s | 150 | |
| 1950s | 142 | |
| 1960s | 97 | |
| 1970s | 76 | |
| 1980s | 84 | |
| 1990s | 84 | |
| 2000s | 47 | |
| 2010s | 21 | |
| 2020s | 11 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Claiborne was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1918 were John, William, James, Robert and Charles. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Claiborne
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Rudolfpeak 1927
- Hiltonpeak 1920
- Armandpeak 1918
- Feltonpeak 1948
- Stanfordpeak 1954
- Farrispeak 1923
- Leeroypeak 1927
- Eltonpeak 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.