girls:
3.9k births since 1880
#2755 (52nd percentile)
boys:
144.3k births since 1880
#235 (95th percentile)
overall:
148.2k births since 1880
#503 (94th percentile)
The name Clyde is the #503 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 148,203 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 93.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 93.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #235 (94.9% percentile) for all time with 144,271 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #2,755 (51.8% percentile) for all time with 3,932 births since 1880.
Clyde has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880
The name Clyde has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Clyde reached its peak popularity in 1926, achieving the 88.0% percentile (ranked #67) with 2,508 births per million. The name was most common in 1905, with 3,309 births per million (ranked 79.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2005, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Clyde ranks #575 for boys (36.9% percentile) with 200 births per million, which is 6.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Clyde reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 20.3% percentile (ranked #460) with 110 births per million. The name was most common in 1901, with 244 births per million (ranked 17.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1977.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Clyde".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Clyde. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Clyde is pronounced as klaid, which has 1 syllables.
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