Cleveland
Cleveland is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 13 births. Its best rank was 92nd, in 1884.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 130.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1947360 births
- Best rank
- #92in 1884
- Since 1880
- 21,934people given the name
The story in the numbers
21,934 boys have been named Cleveland in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1947, with 360 births.
The name has all but left use: 13 births in 2024, against 360 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1944, and the 1920s alone account for 15%. It has spent 109 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 2 of them in the top 100.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Cleveland | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 702 | |
| 1890s | 524 | |
| 1900s | 553 | |
| 1910s | 2,219 | |
| 1920s | 3,183 | |
| 1930s | 2,480 | |
| 1940s | 2,970 | |
| 1950s | 3,069 | |
| 1960s | 2,055 | |
| 1970s | 1,498 | |
| 1980s | 1,107 | |
| 1990s | 743 | |
| 2000s | 474 | |
| 2010s | 280 | |
| 2020s | 77 |
In 1947, its biggest year
Cleveland was the 360th most given boy’s name 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 Cleveland
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Alonzapeak 1961
- Frankpeak 1918
- Woodiepeak 1946
- Napoleonpeak 1926
- Budpeak 1928
- Georgepeak 1921
- Thorntonpeak 1921
- Hughpeak 1916
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.