Claud
Claud is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 139th, in 1885.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1919344 births
- Best rank
- #139in 1885
- Since 1880
- 10,893people given the name
The story in the numbers
10,893 boys have been named Claud in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1919, with 344 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 344 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1922, and the 1920s alone account for 25%. It has spent 76 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Claud | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 881 | |
| 1890s | 827 | |
| 1900s | 811 | |
| 1910s | 2,205 | |
| 1920s | 2,726 | |
| 1930s | 1,394 | |
| 1940s | 947 | |
| 1950s | 581 | |
| 1960s | 272 | |
| 1970s | 135 | |
| 1980s | 68 | |
| 1990s | 41 | |
| 2010s | 5 |
In 1919, its biggest year
Claud was the 291st most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1919 were John, William, James, Robert and Charles. See all of 1919.
Names that rose and fell with Claud
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Ciceropeak 1920
- Clempeak 1917
- Mosepeak 1919
- Alvapeak 1917
- Generalpeak 1918
- Columbuspeak 1922
- Guspeak 1921
- Judgepeak 1919
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.