boys:
113 births since 2003
#4473 (2nd percentile)
overall:
113 births since 2003
#7626 (1st percentile)
The name Clever is the #7,626 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 113 recorded births since 2003. This represents the 1.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,473 (2.4% percentile) for all time with 113 births since 2003.
Clever first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2003 (first recorded for boys in 2003). Birth data for Clever is available in 18 out of the 21 years between 2003 and 2023. 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.
For boys, Clever reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #894) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). Despite a peak around 2020, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for boys. Currently, Clever ranks #909 for boys (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 58.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Clever".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Clever is pronounced as KLEH-ver, which has 2 syllables.
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