Meaning not yet researched.
Cleveland: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 11 in 2025. Its best rank was #92 in 1884.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #92 in 1884; #7,286 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Cleveland in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,286 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1884, at #92.
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Cleveland: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 11 boys in 2025. Peak: #92 in 1884 · most boys in one year: 360 (1947).
In 2025, 11 US boys were named Cleveland, making it the 7,286th most common boys’ name of the year, down 756 places from #6,530 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 13 boys named Cleveland in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #92, reached in 1884. The most boys given the name in a single year was 360, in 1947. For comparison, it was #4,100 in 2015 and #373 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cleveland in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 11 babies with the name. In all, 22,032 US babies have been given the name, 0.4% of them girls and 99.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 3,203 babies named Cleveland.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 183 US boys were named Cleveland; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 28. In 2025 that was about 1 in 155,280 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Cleaveland are summarised on this page.
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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Cleaveland (43).
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 Cleveland 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 | — | — | 11 | #7,286 |
| 2024 | — | — | 13 | #6,530 |
| 2023 | — | — | 11 | #7,373 |
| 2022 | — | — | 12 | #6,904 |
| 2021 | — | — | 21 | #4,658 |
| 2020 | — | — | 20 | #4,731 |
| 2019 | — | — | 21 | #4,668 |
| 2018 | — | — | 23 | #4,387 |
| 2017 | — | — | 28 | #3,792 |
| 2016 | — | — | 23 | #4,352 |
| 2015 | — | — | 25 | #4,100 |
| 2014 | — | — | 26 | #3,920 |
| 2013 | — | — | 22 | #4,352 |
| 2012 | — | — | 32 | #3,385 |
| 2011 | — | — | 43 | #2,761 |
| 2010 | — | — | 37 | #3,084 |
| 2009 | — | — | 39 | #3,002 |
| 2008 | — | — | 37 | #3,116 |
| 2007 | — | — | 42 | #2,822 |
| 2006 | — | — | 41 | #2,793 |
| 2005 | — | — | 47 | #2,436 |
| 2004 | — | — | 38 | #2,752 |
| 2003 | — | — | 52 | #2,130 |
| 2002 | — | — | 67 | #1,725 |
| 2001 | — | — | 62 | #1,802 |
| 2000 | — | — | 49 | #2,056 |
| 1999 | — | — | 59 | #1,735 |
| 1998 | — | — | 60 | #1,705 |
| 1997 | — | — | 62 | #1,629 |
| 1996 | — | — | 65 | #1,538 |
| 1995 | — | — | 68 | #1,448 |
| 1994 | — | — | 75 | #1,345 |
| 1993 | — | — | 87 | #1,208 |
| 1992 | — | — | 75 | #1,302 |
| 1991 | — | — | 96 | #1,118 |
| 1990 | — | — | 96 | #1,088 |
| 1989 | — | — | 110 | #975 |
| 1988 | — | — | 91 | #1,033 |
| 1987 | — | — | 91 | #998 |
| 1986 | — | — | 95 | #938 |
| 1985 | — | — | 92 | #951 |
| 1984 | — | — | 116 | #811 |
| 1983 | — | — | 128 | #765 |
| 1982 | — | — | 129 | #777 |
| 1981 | — | — | 116 | #815 |
| 1980 | — | — | 139 | #745 |
| 1979 | — | — | 126 | #771 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,047 | 117 | #779 |
| 1977 | — | — | 133 | #741 |
| 1976 | — | — | 125 | #744 |
| 1975 | — | — | 150 | #674 |
| 1974 | — | — | 147 | #670 |
| 1973 | — | — | 170 | #609 |
| 1972 | — | — | 144 | #669 |
| 1971 | — | — | 189 | #605 |
| 1970 | — | — | 197 | #575 |
| 1969 | — | — | 181 | #581 |
| 1968 | — | — | 161 | #598 |
| 1967 | — | — | 196 | #530 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,747 | 185 | #561 |
| 1965 | — | — | 219 | #518 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,126 | 215 | #533 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,001 | 202 | #556 |
| 1962 | — | — | 198 | #561 |
| 1961 | — | — | 249 | #504 |
| 1960 | — | — | 249 | #501 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,417 | 243 | #501 |
| 1958 | — | — | 259 | #487 |
| 1957 | — | — | 292 | #451 |
| 1956 | — | — | 325 | #417 |
| 1955 | — | — | 327 | #403 |
| 1954 | — | — | 319 | #401 |
| 1953 | — | — | 330 | #382 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,701 | 326 | #379 |
| 1951 | — | — | 318 | #381 |
| 1950 | — | — | 330 | #373 |
| 1949 | — | — | 323 | #374 |
| 1948 | — | — | 328 | #374 |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,049 | 360 | #360 |
| 1946 | — | — | 305 | #371 |
| 1945 | — | — | 283 | #353 |
| 1944 | — | — | 296 | #346 |
| 1943 | — | — | 289 | #361 |
| 1942 | — | — | 274 | #366 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,631 | 247 | #370 |
| 1940 | — | — | 265 | #348 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,492 | 259 | #345 |
| 1938 | — | — | 242 | #357 |
| 1937 | — | — | 246 | #346 |
| 1936 | — | — | 222 | #364 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,468 | 259 | #342 |
| 1934 | 6 | #3,890 | 211 | #376 |
| 1933 | — | — | 245 | #343 |
| 1932 | — | — | 265 | #339 |
| 1931 | — | — | 244 | #356 |
| 1930 | — | — | 287 | #327 |
| 1929 | — | — | 244 | #365 |
| 1928 | — | — | 276 | #344 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,943 | 325 | #319 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,976 | 326 | #314 |
| 1925 | — | — | 296 | #335 |
| 1924 | — | — | 339 | #311 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,096 | 336 | #313 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,158 | 346 | #307 |
| 1921 | — | — | 339 | #316 |
| 1920 | — | — | 356 | #302 |
| 1919 | — | — | 354 | #286 |
| 1918 | — | — | 321 | #313 |
| 1917 | — | — | 287 | #317 |
| 1916 | — | — | 252 | #336 |
| 1915 | — | — | 244 | #337 |
| 1914 | — | — | 214 | #310 |
| 1913 | — | — | 173 | #301 |
| 1912 | — | — | 156 | #286 |
| 1911 | — | — | 110 | #243 |
| 1910 | — | — | 108 | #225 |
| 1909 | — | — | 83 | #240 |
| 1908 | — | — | 59 | #281 |
| 1907 | — | — | 66 | #256 |
| 1906 | — | — | 53 | #271 |
| 1905 | — | — | 54 | #268 |
| 1904 | — | — | 42 | #301 |
| 1903 | — | — | 42 | #292 |
| 1902 | — | — | 52 | #257 |
| 1901 | — | — | 30 | #326 |
| 1900 | — | — | 72 | #239 |
| 1899 | — | — | 39 | #277 |
| 1898 | — | — | 35 | #324 |
| 1897 | — | — | 39 | #289 |
| 1896 | — | — | 56 | #243 |
| 1895 | — | — | 51 | #251 |
| 1894 | — | — | 50 | #243 |
| 1893 | — | — | 66 | #209 |
| 1892 | — | — | 82 | #190 |
| 1891 | — | — | 50 | #228 |
| 1890 | — | — | 56 | #221 |
| 1889 | — | — | 60 | #211 |
| 1888 | — | — | 87 | #173 |
| 1887 | — | — | 54 | #212 |
| 1886 | — | — | 87 | #160 |
| 1885 | — | — | 147 | #98 |
| 1884 | — | — | 174 | #92 |
| 1883 | — | — | 35 | #280 |
| 1882 | — | — | 35 | #289 |
| 1881 | — | — | 12 | #508 |
| 1880 | — | — | 11 | #577 |
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).