girls:
127.9k births since 1880
#311 (95th percentile)
boys:
760 births since 1900
#3827 (16th percentile)
overall:
128.6k births since 1880
#578 (93rd percentile)
The name Claudia is the #578 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 128,618 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 92.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 92.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #311 (94.6% percentile) for all time with 127,858 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #3,827 (16.5% percentile) for all time with 760 births since 1900.
Claudia has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1900 for boys).
The name Claudia has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.4% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Claudia reached its peak popularity in 1952, achieving the 84.0% percentile (ranked #111) with 1,779 births per million. The name was most common in 1952, with 1,779 births per million (ranked 84.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1999, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Claudia ranks #726 for girls (23.4% percentile) with 129 births per million, which is 7.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Claudia reached its peak popularity in 1982, achieving the 3.0% percentile (ranked #670) with 14 births per million. The name was most common in 1900, with 31 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2002.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Claudia".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Claudia. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Claudia is pronounced as KLAW-dee-uh, which has 3 syllables.
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