girls:
436 births since 1908
#5280 (8th percentile)
boys:
70.1k births since 1880
#393 (91st percentile)
overall:
70.5k births since 1880
#864 (89th percentile)
The name Clifton is the #864 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 70,505 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 88.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 88.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #393 (91.4% percentile) for all time with 70,069 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,280 (7.6% percentile) for all time with 436 births since 1908.
Clifton has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1908 for girls).
The name Clifton has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Clifton reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 73.2% percentile (ranked #144) with 872 births per million. The name was most common in 1915, with 931 births per million (ranked 71.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Clifton ranks #811 for boys (11.0% percentile) with 57 births per million, which is 6.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Clifton reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #570) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1913, with 15 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1988.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Clifton".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Clifton. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Clifton is pronounced as KLIHF-tuhn, which has 2 syllables.
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