Classie
Classie was last recorded in 2009, when 5 babies were given it; 1,607 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2009 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Classie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Classie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,914, in 2009; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
39 babies in 1922, the peak
Classie peaked in 1922, when 39 girls were given it, #1,253 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 5 | #17,914 | 2.7 |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,717 | 2.6 |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,865 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,403 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,957 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,873 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,911 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,719 | 2.7 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,589 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,707 | 3.2 |
Every recorded year (107)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 9 | #8,178 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,538 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 7 | #8,956 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,281 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,413 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,339 | 4.2 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,252 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,394 | 4.1 |
| 1981 | 9 | #6,907 | 5.4 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,700 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,203 | 4.4 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,040 | 3.3 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,499 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,728 | 4.2 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,209 | 2.9 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,663 | 3.0 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,177 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,558 | 4.2 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,237 | 5.9 |
| 1965 | 14 | #3,427 | 7.9 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,401 | 5.3 |
| 1963 | 8 | #4,950 | 4.2 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,387 | 3.6 |
| 1961 | 8 | #4,961 | 4.0 |
| 1960 | 6 | #5,806 | 3.0 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,662 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 12 | #3,577 | 6.0 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,595 | 3.9 |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,730 | 5.5 |
| 1955 | 11 | #3,611 | 5.6 |
| 1954 | 14 | #3,042 | 7.2 |
| 1953 | 17 | #2,606 | 9.0 |
| 1952 | 18 | #2,508 | 9.7 |
| 1951 | 18 | #2,401 | 10.0 |
| 1950 | 16 | #2,565 | 9.3 |
| 1949 | 18 | #2,350 | 10.5 |
| 1948 | 35 | #1,577 | 20.6 |
| 1947 | 20 | #2,206 | 11.3 |
| 1946 | 24 | #1,873 | 15.3 |
| 1945 | 23 | #1,757 | 17.6 |
| 1944 | 28 | #1,550 | 21.1 |
| 1943 | 34 | #1,426 | 24.4 |
| 1942 | 30 | #1,502 | 22.2 |
| 1941 | 24 | #1,618 | 19.9 |
| 1940 | 24 | #1,601 | 21.0 |
| 1939 | 20 | #1,750 | 18.2 |
| 1938 | 19 | #1,817 | 17.2 |
| 1937 | 21 | #1,690 | 19.7 |
| 1936 | 30 | #1,325 | 28.8 |
| 1935 | 28 | #1,385 | 26.7 |
| 1934 | 25 | #1,487 | 23.9 |
| 1933 | 14 | #2,177 | 13.9 |
| 1932 | 20 | #1,763 | 18.7 |
| 1931 | 24 | #1,558 | 22.5 |
| 1930 | 32 | #1,353 | 28.4 |
| 1929 | 29 | #1,423 | 26.0 |
| 1928 | 31 | #1,398 | 26.9 |
| 1927 | 21 | #1,894 | 17.6 |
| 1926 | 32 | #1,420 | 27.0 |
| 1925 | 30 | #1,512 | 24.6 |
| 1924 | 33 | #1,448 | 26.4 |
| 1923 | 30 | #1,496 | 24.9 |
| 1922 | 39 | #1,253 | 32.5 |
| 1921 | 23 | #1,829 | 18.7 |
| 1920 | 23 | #1,760 | 19.2 |
| 1919 | 36 | #1,274 | 31.9 |
| 1918 | 29 | #1,455 | 25.1 |
| 1917 | 28 | #1,405 | 25.9 |
| 1916 | 20 | #1,748 | 19.2 |
| 1915 | 20 | #1,688 | 20.3 |
| 1914 | 23 | #1,308 | 30.2 |
| 1913 | 22 | #1,181 | 35.2 |
| 1912 | 17 | #1,314 | 30.5 |
| 1911 | 14 | #1,254 | 33.5 |
| 1910 | 21 | #944 | 53.0 |
| 1909 | 12 | #1,232 | 34.6 |
| 1908 | 20 | #886 | 59.8 |
| 1907 | 22 | #796 | 69.1 |
| 1906 | 10 | #1,238 | 33.9 |
| 1905 | 5 | #1,991 | 17.1 |
| 1904 | 9 | #1,273 | 32.7 |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,636 | 22.9 |
| 1902 | 15 | #910 | 56.8 |
| 1900 | 17 | #925 | 56.7 |
| 1899 | 7 | #1,295 | 30.0 |
| 1897 | 7 | #1,284 | 29.9 |
| 1896 | 7 | #1,312 | 29.4 |
| 1895 | 12 | #938 | 51.4 |
| 1894 | 10 | #1,011 | 44.9 |
| 1893 | 19 | #666 | 89.2 |
| 1892 | 7 | #1,189 | 33.0 |
| 1891 | 7 | #1,116 | 37.7 |
| 1887 | 9 | #805 | 61.7 |
| 1885 | 8 | #796 | 60.1 |
| 1883 | 5 | #949 | 44.5 |
| 1882 | 5 | #935 | 46.4 |
| 1880 | 6 | #761 | 65.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Classie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Classie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 107 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Classie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Classie, and how old are they?
An estimated 524 Americans named Classie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (33% of everyone recorded); the median is 72 years old and half are between 47 and 81. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 546 people named Classie (536 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 647 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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).
Where are babies named Classie born?
The states with the most babies named Classie are Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia, with 83% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Mississippi and Alabama are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 131 | not ranked | 4.8× |
| Alabama | 87 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Georgia | 56 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| North Carolina | 26 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Tennessee | 10 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Arkansas | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Kentucky | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Louisiana | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| South Carolina | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Classie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Classie is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1910 it was given 4.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Classie with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Classie
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 Classie and names like it
- Compare Classie and PearlieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sClassie peaked in 1922.
- Mississippi’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Classie since 1910.
- The top names of 1922The year the most babies were named Classie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Classie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.