Claude
Claude is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 35 births. Its best rank was 46th, in 1887.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 350.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 19201,893 births
- Best rank
- #46in 1887
- Since 1880
- 91,300people given the name
The story in the numbers
91,300 boys have been named Claude in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 1,893 births — 0.18% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 35 births in 2024, against 1,893 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1933, and the 1920s alone account for 19%. It has spent 114 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 43 of them in the top 100.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Claude | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 3,504 | |
| 1890s | 3,636 | |
| 1900s | 3,704 | |
| 1910s | 12,792 | |
| 1920s | 16,999 | |
| 1930s | 12,741 | |
| 1940s | 12,820 | |
| 1950s | 10,832 | |
| 1960s | 6,438 | |
| 1970s | 3,244 | |
| 1980s | 2,034 | |
| 1990s | 1,195 | |
| 2000s | 699 | |
| 2010s | 472 | |
| 2020s | 190 |
In 1920, its biggest year
Claude was the 92nd 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 Claude
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lutherpeak 1922
- Frankpeak 1918
- Barneypeak 1919
- Granvillepeak 1918
- Rufuspeak 1922
- Budpeak 1928
- Fredpeak 1924
- Roscoepeak 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.