Claiborne
Claiborne was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 1,237 Americans have been recorded with it between 1889 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Claiborne by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Claiborne?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,689, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
27 babies in 1918, the peak
Claiborne peaked in 1918, when 27 boys were given it, #1,379 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #12,689 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 6 | #11,049 | 3.4 |
| 2016 | 8 | #9,007 | 4.2 |
| 2012 | 8 | #9,001 | 4.2 |
| 2010 | 5 | #12,586 | 2.6 |
| 2009 | 5 | #12,828 | 2.5 |
| 2007 | 5 | #12,692 | 2.4 |
| 2006 | 6 | #10,910 | 2.9 |
| 2003 | 8 | #7,972 | 4.0 |
| 2002 | 9 | #7,143 | 4.6 |
Every recorded year (104)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 6 | #9,460 | 3.1 |
| 2000 | 8 | #7,557 | 4.1 |
| 1999 | 10 | #6,115 | 5.2 |
| 1998 | 10 | #5,899 | 5.2 |
| 1997 | 8 | #6,711 | 4.2 |
| 1996 | 11 | #5,239 | 5.8 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,114 | 3.7 |
| 1994 | 13 | #4,571 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 7 | #6,938 | 3.6 |
| 1992 | 10 | #5,290 | 5.0 |
| 1990 | 8 | #5,914 | 3.9 |
| 1989 | 12 | #4,310 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 7 | #5,861 | 3.7 |
| 1987 | 9 | #4,619 | 4.8 |
| 1986 | 12 | #3,679 | 6.5 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,241 | 3.8 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,067 | 3.9 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,602 | 3.3 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,109 | 3.9 |
| 1981 | 9 | #4,204 | 5.0 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,565 | 4.5 |
| 1979 | 9 | #4,132 | 5.2 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,224 | 4.9 |
| 1977 | 7 | #4,675 | 4.3 |
| 1975 | 6 | #4,899 | 3.8 |
| 1974 | 9 | #3,607 | 5.7 |
| 1973 | 11 | #3,045 | 7.1 |
| 1972 | 8 | #3,679 | 4.9 |
| 1971 | 9 | #3,407 | 5.1 |
| 1970 | 9 | #3,317 | 4.8 |
| 1969 | 7 | #3,653 | 3.9 |
| 1968 | 9 | #2,940 | 5.2 |
| 1967 | 7 | #3,294 | 4.0 |
| 1966 | 12 | #2,352 | 6.7 |
| 1965 | 8 | #3,019 | 4.3 |
| 1964 | 7 | #3,331 | 3.5 |
| 1963 | 16 | #2,053 | 7.9 |
| 1962 | 10 | #2,700 | 4.8 |
| 1961 | 11 | #2,570 | 5.2 |
| 1960 | 10 | #2,708 | 4.7 |
| 1959 | 21 | #1,762 | 9.8 |
| 1958 | 13 | #2,278 | 6.1 |
| 1957 | 12 | #2,391 | 5.6 |
| 1956 | 12 | #2,384 | 5.7 |
| 1955 | 15 | #2,061 | 7.3 |
| 1954 | 19 | #1,771 | 9.3 |
| 1953 | 7 | #3,185 | 3.5 |
| 1952 | 17 | #1,870 | 8.7 |
| 1951 | 18 | #1,783 | 9.6 |
| 1950 | 8 | #2,806 | 4.5 |
| 1949 | 11 | #2,357 | 6.2 |
| 1948 | 15 | #1,954 | 8.5 |
| 1947 | 20 | #1,702 | 10.9 |
| 1946 | 16 | #1,828 | 9.9 |
| 1945 | 14 | #1,864 | 10.4 |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,211 | 8.1 |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,193 | 8.4 |
| 1942 | 26 | #1,364 | 18.8 |
| 1941 | 12 | #2,101 | 9.8 |
| 1940 | 13 | #1,999 | 11.2 |
| 1939 | 12 | #2,076 | 10.8 |
| 1938 | 16 | #1,754 | 14.4 |
| 1937 | 15 | #1,835 | 14.1 |
| 1936 | 16 | #1,740 | 15.4 |
| 1935 | 17 | #1,719 | 16.3 |
| 1934 | 20 | #1,563 | 19.4 |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,234 | 11.1 |
| 1932 | 9 | #2,671 | 8.6 |
| 1931 | 11 | #2,347 | 10.6 |
| 1930 | 12 | #2,322 | 10.9 |
| 1929 | 23 | #1,532 | 21.4 |
| 1928 | 22 | #1,613 | 19.9 |
| 1927 | 23 | #1,609 | 20.4 |
| 1926 | 21 | #1,671 | 18.9 |
| 1925 | 22 | #1,637 | 19.7 |
| 1924 | 24 | #1,585 | 21.2 |
| 1923 | 9 | #2,979 | 8.2 |
| 1922 | 14 | #2,261 | 12.9 |
| 1921 | 13 | #2,400 | 11.8 |
| 1920 | 23 | #1,601 | 21.6 |
| 1919 | 23 | #1,537 | 23.5 |
| 1918 | 27 | #1,379 | 26.6 |
| 1917 | 13 | #2,199 | 14.0 |
| 1916 | 20 | #1,598 | 22.5 |
| 1915 | 17 | #1,715 | 20.0 |
| 1914 | 10 | #2,130 | 15.3 |
| 1913 | 11 | #1,696 | 21.5 |
| 1912 | 11 | #1,542 | 25.6 |
| 1909 | 8 | #1,096 | 48.8 |
| 1908 | 5 | #1,415 | 32.4 |
| 1907 | 5 | #1,374 | 34.1 |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,151 | 41.9 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,154 | 40.8 |
| 1889 | 5 | #995 | 45.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Claiborne a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,237 Americans recorded as Claiborne, 2% are girls and 98% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Claiborne: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Claiborne, and how old are they?
An estimated 588 Americans named Claiborne and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (48% of everyone recorded); the median is 52 years old and half are between 32 and 69. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 701 people named Claiborne (107 women and girls, 594 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 654 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,512 babies since 1880, Claiborne is the most given (82% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Claiborne
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Claiborne and names like it
- Compare Claiborne and ClayborneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sClaiborne peaked in 1918.
- Louisiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Claiborne since 1910.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Claiborne.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Claiborne alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.