Cleophus
Cleophus is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 194746 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1904
- 2,023people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,023 boys have been named Cleophus in the United States since 1904, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1947, with 46 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 46 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1949, and the 1950s alone account for 18%.
By decade
| Decade | boys named Cleophus | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 15 | |
| 1910s | 126 | |
| 1920s | 287 | |
| 1930s | 297 | |
| 1940s | 317 | |
| 1950s | 356 | |
| 1960s | 247 | |
| 1970s | 170 | |
| 1980s | 122 | |
| 1990s | 69 | |
| 2000s | 17 |
In 1947, its biggest year
Cleophus was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1947 were James, Robert, John, William and Richard. See all of 1947.
Names that rose and fell with Cleophus
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Rayfordpeak 1937
- Wardellpeak 1950
- Harrellpeak 1947
- Girardpeak 1926
- Thurmondpeak 1948
- Glynnpeak 1950
- Farrellpeak 1935
- Doylepeak 1931
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.