girls:
2k births since 1880
#3808 (33rd percentile)
boys:
188k births since 1880
#190 (96th percentile)
overall:
190k births since 1880
#405 (95th percentile)
The name Clifford is the #405 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 189,981 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 94.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 94.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #190 (95.9% percentile) for all time with 187,962 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #3,808 (33.4% percentile) for all time with 2,019 births since 1880.
Clifford has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880
The name Clifford has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Clifford reached its peak popularity in 1925, achieving the 89.4% percentile (ranked #59) with 2,974 births per million. The name was most common in 1918, with 3,146 births per million (ranked 88.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2014, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Clifford ranks #793 for boys (13.0% percentile) with 67 births per million, which is 2.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Clifford reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 9.2% percentile (ranked #524) with 52 births per million. The name was most common in 1909, with 92 births per million (ranked 7.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1991.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Clifford".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Clifford. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Clifford is pronounced as KLIH-ferd, which has 2 syllables.
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