Meaning not yet researched.
Claude: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 40 in 2025. Its best rank was #46 in 1887.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #46 in 1887; #3,044 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Claude in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,044 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1887, at #46.
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Claude: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 40 boys in 2025. Peak: #46 in 1887 · most boys in one year: 1,893 (1920).
In 2025, 40 US boys were named Claude, making it the 3,044th most common boys’ name of the year, up 301 places from #3,345 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 35 boys named Claude in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #46, reached in 1887. The most boys given the name in a single year was 1,893, in 1920. For comparison, it was #2,433 in 2015 and #177 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Claude in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 319 babies with the name. In all, 92,289 US babies have been given the name, 1.0% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 17,190 babies named Claude.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 418 US boys were named Claude; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 55. In 2025 that was about 1 in 42,702 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Claudie (6,717 babies since 1880), Claudio (5,502 babies since 1880) and Claud (10,940 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in French. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Claude in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 40 | #3,044 |
| 2024 | — | — | 35 | #3,345 |
| 2023 | — | — | 39 | #3,129 |
| 2022 | — | — | 34 | #3,424 |
| 2021 | — | — | 38 | #3,134 |
| 2020 | — | — | 44 | #2,768 |
| 2019 | — | — | 42 | #2,904 |
| 2018 | — | — | 51 | #2,515 |
| 2017 | — | — | 40 | #2,965 |
| 2016 | — | — | 55 | #2,368 |
| 2015 | — | — | 52 | #2,433 |
| 2014 | — | — | 42 | #2,815 |
| 2013 | — | — | 43 | #2,722 |
| 2012 | — | — | 45 | #2,685 |
| 2011 | — | — | 47 | #2,595 |
| 2010 | — | — | 55 | #2,332 |
| 2009 | — | — | 58 | #2,258 |
| 2008 | — | — | 66 | #2,093 |
| 2007 | — | — | 58 | #2,263 |
| 2006 | — | — | 62 | #2,109 |
| 2005 | — | — | 70 | #1,842 |
| 2004 | — | — | 65 | #1,885 |
| 2003 | — | — | 82 | #1,551 |
| 2002 | — | — | 70 | #1,684 |
| 2001 | — | — | 69 | #1,679 |
| 2000 | — | — | 99 | #1,302 |
| 1999 | — | — | 91 | #1,321 |
| 1998 | — | — | 93 | #1,288 |
| 1997 | — | — | 89 | #1,286 |
| 1996 | — | — | 108 | #1,108 |
| 1995 | — | — | 113 | #1,055 |
| 1994 | — | — | 119 | #1,017 |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,918 | 143 | #898 |
| 1992 | — | — | 142 | #889 |
| 1991 | — | — | 146 | #870 |
| 1990 | — | — | 151 | #836 |
| 1989 | — | — | 170 | #757 |
| 1988 | — | — | 181 | #696 |
| 1987 | — | — | 209 | #634 |
| 1986 | — | — | 177 | #677 |
| 1985 | — | — | 189 | #639 |
| 1984 | — | — | 188 | #622 |
| 1983 | — | — | 184 | #628 |
| 1982 | — | — | 235 | #560 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,289 | 233 | #560 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,703 | 268 | #524 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,442 | 269 | #512 |
| 1978 | — | — | 262 | #498 |
| 1977 | — | — | 255 | #515 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,432 | 268 | #484 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,180 | 316 | #449 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,355 | 319 | #443 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,662 | 324 | #433 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,558 | 362 | #417 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,102 | 422 | #391 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,213 | 447 | #383 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,531 | 448 | #368 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,180 | 530 | #332 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,560 | 506 | #334 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,359 | 547 | #317 |
| 1965 | — | — | 603 | #308 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,674 | 717 | #293 |
| 1963 | 6 | #5,996 | 743 | #282 |
| 1962 | 6 | #5,969 | 701 | #292 |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,304 | 804 | #277 |
| 1960 | 13 | #3,536 | 837 | #277 |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,286 | 852 | #270 |
| 1958 | 7 | #4,983 | 951 | #253 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,499 | 1,024 | #242 |
| 1956 | 10 | #3,957 | 1,003 | #231 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,438 | 1,084 | #218 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,242 | 1,142 | #208 |
| 1953 | 11 | #3,515 | 1,139 | #204 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,014 | 1,144 | #197 |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,759 | 1,239 | #188 |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,716 | 1,253 | #177 |
| 1949 | 8 | #3,948 | 1,219 | #176 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,641 | 1,346 | #168 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,429 | 1,433 | #167 |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,458 | 1,306 | #163 |
| 1945 | — | — | 1,166 | #159 |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,797 | 1,289 | #154 |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,553 | 1,364 | #152 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,204 | 1,314 | #149 |
| 1941 | — | — | 1,189 | #151 |
| 1940 | 8 | #3,264 | 1,194 | #145 |
| 1939 | 13 | #2,318 | 1,157 | #141 |
| 1938 | 8 | #3,234 | 1,311 | #131 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,503 | 1,138 | #137 |
| 1936 | 15 | #2,053 | 1,225 | #132 |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,456 | 1,264 | #129 |
| 1934 | 8 | #3,208 | 1,264 | #130 |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,568 | 1,253 | #131 |
| 1932 | 21 | #1,699 | 1,352 | #126 |
| 1931 | 14 | #2,218 | 1,296 | #134 |
| 1930 | 15 | #2,213 | 1,481 | #122 |
| 1929 | 26 | #1,531 | 1,449 | #119 |
| 1928 | 23 | #1,741 | 1,533 | #116 |
| 1927 | 14 | #2,450 | 1,621 | #114 |
| 1926 | 22 | #1,840 | 1,714 | #106 |
| 1925 | 16 | #2,301 | 1,696 | #102 |
| 1924 | 15 | #2,423 | 1,706 | #103 |
| 1923 | 18 | #2,102 | 1,694 | #103 |
| 1922 | 20 | #1,967 | 1,806 | #97 |
| 1921 | 20 | #1,996 | 1,887 | #96 |
| 1920 | 17 | #2,185 | 1,893 | #92 |
| 1919 | 13 | #2,540 | 1,772 | #92 |
| 1918 | 19 | #1,976 | 1,878 | #95 |
| 1917 | 13 | #2,442 | 1,625 | #98 |
| 1916 | 9 | #3,073 | 1,733 | #93 |
| 1915 | 13 | #2,277 | 1,605 | #96 |
| 1914 | 13 | #1,918 | 1,284 | #93 |
| 1913 | 13 | #1,690 | 1,076 | #88 |
| 1912 | 8 | #2,195 | 890 | #89 |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,247 | 466 | #87 |
| 1910 | 9 | #1,654 | 463 | #78 |
| 1909 | 8 | #1,635 | 419 | #74 |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,176 | 428 | #69 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,130 | 364 | #74 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,772 | 346 | #73 |
| 1905 | — | — | 399 | #63 |
| 1904 | 9 | #1,275 | 337 | #70 |
| 1903 | 8 | #1,339 | 301 | #71 |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,638 | 336 | #68 |
| 1901 | — | — | 341 | #58 |
| 1900 | 12 | #1,118 | 433 | #59 |
| 1899 | 7 | #1,297 | 293 | #63 |
| 1898 | 11 | #1,053 | 371 | #59 |
| 1897 | 16 | #795 | 345 | #59 |
| 1896 | 9 | #1,145 | 398 | #54 |
| 1895 | 13 | #899 | 389 | #55 |
| 1894 | — | — | 419 | #53 |
| 1893 | 9 | #1,032 | 394 | #52 |
| 1892 | 10 | #971 | 353 | #62 |
| 1891 | 7 | #1,117 | 327 | #57 |
| 1890 | 12 | #795 | 347 | #57 |
| 1889 | 5 | #1,321 | 386 | #49 |
| 1888 | 8 | #972 | 374 | #55 |
| 1887 | 8 | #875 | 375 | #46 |
| 1886 | 10 | #738 | 391 | #48 |
| 1885 | 7 | #857 | 343 | #52 |
| 1884 | — | — | 353 | #54 |
| 1883 | 6 | #841 | 315 | #54 |
| 1882 | 8 | #688 | 356 | #50 |
| 1881 | 9 | #587 | 302 | #53 |
| 1880 | 10 | #553 | 309 | #56 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).