Classie — girls' name
1,607 babies named Classie in U.S. Social Security records since 1880, with the highest year being 1922. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
18% of everyone ever named Classie was born in this single decade.
39 babies were named Classie in 1922 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Classie
The Social Security Administration has registered 1,607 babies named Classie between 1880 and 2009, spanning 130 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Classie currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2009. The name reached its historical peak in 1922, when 39 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Classie performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 291 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Classie shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Mississippi, which accounts for 131 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Alabama and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Classie in 9 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Classie in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,607 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Classie at a glance
Last recorded 2009Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Classie popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2009–1880
- Peak year (1922)
- 39
- Annual births at peak — across 130 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2009.
1,607 total births across 130 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1922 with 39 births in a single year.
Classie by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1920s
- 291 births that decade — 18% of Classie's all-time total
Classie decade highlights
- Peak decade 291 births
- Runner-up 260 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1920s was Classie's strongest decade
291 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 18% of all-time use.
Classie by state
Where Classie concentrates geographically — total births since 1880
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Mississippi | | 131 | 8.2% |
| #2 | Alabama | | 87 | 5.4% |
| #3 | Georgia | | 56 | 3.5% |
| #4 | North Carolina | | 26 | 1.6% |
| #5 | Tennessee | | 10 | 0.6% |
| #6 | Arkansas | | 5 | 0.3% |
| #7 | Kentucky | | 5 | 0.3% |
| #8 | Louisiana | | 5 | 0.3% |
131 of 1,607 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 9 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Mississippi 8.2% of nationwide
- Alabama 5.4% of nationwide
- Georgia 3.5% of nationwide
- North Carolina 1.6% of nationwide
- Tennessee 0.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 9 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Mississippi accounts for 8.2% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
Classie appears in 9 states. Explore state details →
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1880–2009 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.