girls:
952 births since 1880
#4764 (17th percentile)
boys:
91.3k births since 1880
#328 (93rd percentile)
overall:
92.2k births since 1880
#727 (91st percentile)
The name Claude is the #727 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 92,216 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 90.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 90.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #328 (92.9% percentile) for all time with 91,264 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #4,764 (16.6% percentile) for all time with 952 births since 1880.
Claude has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880
The name Claude has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Claude reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 83.1% percentile (ranked #91) with 1,745 births per million. The name was most common in 1887, with 3,431 births per million (ranked 78.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Claude ranks #877 for boys (3.7% percentile) with 21 births per million, which is 0.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Claude reached its peak popularity in 1929, achieving the 3.6% percentile (ranked #571) with 22 births per million. The name was most common in 1880, with 102 births per million (ranked 2.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1993.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Claude".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Claude. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 85.7% confident that Claude is pronounced as klawd, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is klohd, at 14.3% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like K L AO1 D) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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