girls:
47 births since 1918
#5669 (1st percentile)
boys:
10.9k births since 1880
#1108 (76th percentile)
overall:
10.9k births since 1880
#2518 (67th percentile)
The name Claud is the #2,518 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 10,940 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 67.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 67.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,108 (75.8% percentile) for all time with 10,893 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,669 (0.8% percentile) for all time with 47 births since 1918.
Claud has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1918 for girls). Birth data for Claud is available in 114 out of the 131 years between 1880 and 2010 (114 years for boys and 8 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Claud has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Claud reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 50.4% percentile (ranked #266) with 339 births per million. The name was most common in 1885, with 837 births per million (ranked 41.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2010.
For girls, Claud reached its peak popularity in 1930, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #589) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1930, with 8 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1943.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Claud".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Claud", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 1 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Claude" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Claude..
Our model found one way to pronounce the name Claud. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Claud is pronounced as klawd, which has 1 syllables.
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