Meaning not yet researched.
Clive: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 57 in 2025. Its best rank was #764 in 1906.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #764 in 1906; #2,398 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Clive in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,398 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1906, at #764.
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Clive: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 57 boys in 2025. Peak: #764 in 1906 · most boys in one year: 85 (2016).
In 2025, 57 US boys were named Clive, making it the 2,398th most common boys’ name of the year, down 353 places from #2,045 in 2024. That is 17 fewer than the 74 boys named Clive in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #764, reached in 1906. The most boys given the name in a single year was 85, in 2016. For comparison, it was #1,817 in 2015 and #1,707 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Clive in 126 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1885 with 5 babies. In all, 3,336 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 690 babies named Clive.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 662 US boys were named Clive; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 85. In 2025 that was about 1 in 29,966 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Clive ranked highest in Missouri in 2025, at #891 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Cleve (4,529 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.
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 Clive in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Missouri | 5 | #891 | — |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,061 | — |
| California | 8 | #1,859 | #1,267 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 57 | #2,398 |
| 2024 | — | — | 74 | #2,045 |
| 2023 | — | — | 54 | #2,484 |
| 2022 | — | — | 55 | #2,497 |
| 2021 | — | — | 69 | #2,097 |
| 2020 | — | — | 55 | #2,398 |
| 2019 | — | — | 64 | #2,190 |
| 2018 | — | — | 82 | #1,840 |
| 2017 | — | — | 67 | #2,069 |
| 2016 | — | — | 85 | #1,791 |
| 2015 | — | — | 82 | #1,817 |
| 2014 | — | — | 77 | #1,890 |
| 2013 | — | — | 56 | #2,286 |
| 2012 | — | — | 67 | #2,051 |
| 2011 | — | — | 53 | #2,382 |
| 2010 | — | — | 57 | #2,265 |
| 2009 | — | — | 56 | #2,324 |
| 2008 | — | — | 49 | #2,552 |
| 2007 | — | — | 45 | #2,692 |
| 2006 | — | — | 38 | #2,943 |
| 2005 | — | — | 21 | #4,219 |
| 2004 | — | — | 20 | #4,290 |
| 2003 | — | — | 18 | #4,453 |
| 2002 | — | — | 14 | #5,181 |
| 2001 | — | — | 9 | #7,024 |
| 2000 | — | — | 19 | #4,084 |
| 1999 | — | — | 17 | #4,185 |
| 1998 | — | — | 12 | #5,200 |
| 1997 | — | — | 22 | #3,271 |
| 1996 | — | — | 12 | #4,923 |
| 1995 | — | — | 19 | #3,451 |
| 1994 | — | — | 16 | #3,939 |
| 1993 | — | — | 15 | #4,054 |
| 1992 | — | — | 23 | #2,926 |
| 1991 | — | — | 37 | #2,027 |
| 1990 | — | — | 27 | #2,502 |
| 1989 | — | — | 11 | #4,571 |
| 1988 | — | — | 24 | #2,447 |
| 1987 | — | — | 18 | #2,858 |
| 1986 | — | — | 18 | #2,799 |
| 1985 | — | — | 13 | #3,441 |
| 1984 | — | — | 18 | #2,629 |
| 1983 | — | — | 18 | #2,595 |
| 1982 | — | — | 9 | #4,292 |
| 1981 | — | — | 15 | #2,922 |
| 1980 | — | — | 11 | #3,659 |
| 1979 | — | — | 13 | #3,203 |
| 1978 | — | — | 13 | #3,096 |
| 1977 | — | — | 14 | #2,933 |
| 1976 | — | — | 6 | #5,037 |
| 1975 | — | — | 12 | #3,106 |
| 1974 | — | — | 10 | #3,364 |
| 1973 | — | — | 9 | #3,493 |
| 1971 | — | — | 13 | #2,704 |
| 1970 | — | — | 10 | #3,105 |
| 1969 | — | — | 6 | #4,025 |
| 1968 | — | — | 13 | #2,341 |
| 1967 | — | — | 14 | #2,160 |
| 1966 | — | — | 10 | #2,657 |
| 1965 | — | — | 8 | #3,022 |
| 1964 | — | — | 17 | #1,982 |
| 1963 | — | — | 28 | #1,489 |
| 1962 | — | — | 10 | #2,704 |
| 1961 | — | — | 17 | #2,006 |
| 1960 | — | — | 19 | #1,868 |
| 1959 | — | — | 17 | #1,986 |
| 1958 | — | — | 19 | #1,854 |
| 1957 | — | — | 18 | #1,898 |
| 1956 | — | — | 19 | #1,841 |
| 1955 | — | — | 26 | #1,511 |
| 1954 | — | — | 23 | #1,599 |
| 1953 | — | — | 22 | #1,641 |
| 1952 | — | — | 27 | #1,464 |
| 1951 | — | — | 30 | #1,351 |
| 1950 | — | — | 19 | #1,707 |
| 1949 | — | — | 22 | #1,588 |
| 1948 | — | — | 24 | #1,493 |
| 1947 | — | — | 38 | #1,177 |
| 1946 | — | — | 29 | #1,302 |
| 1945 | — | — | 23 | #1,384 |
| 1944 | — | — | 24 | #1,373 |
| 1943 | — | — | 25 | #1,406 |
| 1942 | — | — | 41 | #1,060 |
| 1941 | — | — | 20 | #1,541 |
| 1940 | — | — | 19 | #1,583 |
| 1939 | — | — | 25 | #1,327 |
| 1938 | — | — | 27 | #1,279 |
| 1937 | — | — | 34 | #1,126 |
| 1936 | — | — | 28 | #1,250 |
| 1935 | — | — | 41 | #996 |
| 1934 | — | — | 36 | #1,099 |
| 1933 | — | — | 40 | #1,018 |
| 1932 | — | — | 39 | #1,077 |
| 1931 | — | — | 51 | #901 |
| 1930 | — | — | 50 | #960 |
| 1929 | — | — | 27 | #1,388 |
| 1928 | — | — | 27 | #1,421 |
| 1927 | — | — | 23 | #1,611 |
| 1926 | — | — | 26 | #1,437 |
| 1925 | — | — | 27 | #1,428 |
| 1924 | — | — | 31 | #1,336 |
| 1923 | — | — | 30 | #1,332 |
| 1922 | — | — | 27 | #1,436 |
| 1921 | — | — | 26 | #1,486 |
| 1920 | — | — | 26 | #1,464 |
| 1919 | — | — | 28 | #1,358 |
| 1918 | — | — | 31 | #1,263 |
| 1917 | — | — | 28 | #1,298 |
| 1916 | — | — | 18 | #1,710 |
| 1915 | — | — | 34 | #1,106 |
| 1914 | — | — | 19 | #1,398 |
| 1913 | — | — | 14 | #1,458 |
| 1912 | — | — | 10 | #1,642 |
| 1910 | — | — | 8 | #1,222 |
| 1909 | — | — | 6 | #1,305 |
| 1908 | — | — | 8 | #1,033 |
| 1906 | — | — | 11 | #764 |
| 1904 | — | — | 5 | #1,241 |
| 1900 | — | — | 5 | #1,355 |
| 1899 | — | — | 8 | #796 |
| 1897 | — | — | 8 | #801 |
| 1896 | — | — | 6 | #1,003 |
| 1895 | — | — | 7 | #894 |
| 1894 | — | — | 5 | #1,113 |
| 1892 | — | — | 6 | #980 |
| 1885 | — | — | 5 | #966 |
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).