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Cloyd

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Cloyd is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 447th, in 1892.

Rank in 2024
fewer than 5 births
Births in 2024
0not in the data
Peak year
191891 births
Best rank
#447in 1892
Since 1880
3,050people given the name
Babies named Cloyd, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

3,050 boys have been named Cloyd in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 91 births.

The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 91 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1929, and the 1920s alone account for 24%. It has spent 59 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

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 Cloyd
1880s97
1890s109
1900s102
1910s536
1920s719
1930s520
1940s420
1950s277
1960s153
1970s75
1980s31
1990s11

In 1918, its biggest year

Cloyd was the 646th most given boy’s name 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 Cloyd

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.