Cleve
Cleve is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 191st, in 1885.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 195183 births
- Best rank
- #191in 1885
- Since 1882
- 4,506people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,506 boys have been named Cleve in the United States since 1882, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1951, with 83 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 83 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1940, and the 1950s alone account for 15%. It has spent 74 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Cleve | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 295 | |
| 1890s | 219 | |
| 1900s | 171 | |
| 1910s | 484 | |
| 1920s | 568 | |
| 1930s | 497 | |
| 1940s | 553 | |
| 1950s | 682 | |
| 1960s | 400 | |
| 1970s | 294 | |
| 1980s | 185 | |
| 1990s | 104 | |
| 2000s | 44 | |
| 2010s | 10 |
In 1951, its biggest year
Cleve was the 767th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1951 were James, Robert, John, Michael and David. See all of 1951.
Names that rose and fell with Cleve
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Clempeak 1917
- Benjamanpeak 1977
- Eddpeak 1919
- Jesspeak 1915
- Clevelandpeak 1947
- Gustpeak 1923
- Generalpeak 1918
- Groverpeak 1884
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.