Claud
Claud was last recorded in 2010, when 5 babies were given it; 10,940 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2010 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,400 Americans named Claud and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (13% of everyone recorded); the median is 73 years old and half are between 62 and 82.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Claud by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Claud mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Claud is “a male given name from Latin.”
Variant of Claude.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Claud?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,587, in 2010; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
350 babies in 1919, the peak
Claud peaked in 1919, when 350 babies were given it (344 boys, #291 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 5 | #12,587 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,077 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 12 | #4,749 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 9 | #5,716 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,422 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,524 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 9 | #5,234 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,552 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,426 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 5 | #6,697 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (114)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 5 | #6,476 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 13 | #3,316 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 12 | #3,451 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 11 | #3,657 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 13 | #3,200 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 13 | #3,094 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 10 | #3,647 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 13 | #2,972 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 6 | #4,900 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 11 | #3,168 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 12 | #2,883 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 15 | #2,445 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 22 | #1,928 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 20 | #2,005 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 13 | #2,436 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 30 | #1,431 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 26 | #1,513 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 23 | #1,618 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 26 | #1,520 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 30 | #1,438 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 36 | #1,308 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 21 | #1,767 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 41 | #1,235 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 26 | #1,590 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 45 | #1,158 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 33 | #1,348 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 63 | #958 | 0.03 |
| 1956 | 47 | #1,108 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 58 | #987 | 0.03 |
| 1954 | 67 | #901 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 63 | #903 | 0.03 |
| 1952 | 48 | #1,046 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 79 | #790 | 0.04 |
| 1950 | 78 | #771 | 0.04 |
| 1949 | 72 | #809 | 0.04 |
| 1948 | 89 | #709 | 0.05 |
| 1947 | 103 | #682 | 0.06 |
| 1946 | 90 | #682 | 0.06 |
| 1945 | 73 | #710 | 0.05 |
| 1944 | 103 | #605 | 0.08 |
| 1943 | 102 | #628 | 0.07 |
| 1942 | 101 | #630 | 0.07 |
| 1941 | 101 | #589 | 0.08 |
| 1940 | 113 | #557 | 0.10 |
| 1939 | 92 | #606 | 0.08 |
| 1938 | 111 | #548 | 0.10 |
| 1937 | 117 | #536 | 0.11 |
| 1936 | 127 | #506 | 0.12 |
| 1935 | 126 | #512 | 0.12 |
| 1934 | 144 | #473 | 0.14 |
| 1933 | 145 | #461 | 0.15 |
| 1932 | 157 | #452 | 0.15 |
| 1931 | 180 | #420 | 0.17 |
| 1930 | 195 | #423 | 0.18 |
| 1929 | 194 | #422 | 0.18 |
| 1928 | 238 | #382 | 0.21 |
| 1927 | 243 | #376 | 0.22 |
| 1926 | 254 | #366 | 0.23 |
| 1925 | 309 | #327 | 0.28 |
| 1924 | 306 | #332 | 0.27 |
| 1923 | 295 | #340 | 0.27 |
| 1922 | 289 | #348 | 0.27 |
| 1921 | 289 | #353 | 0.26 |
| 1920 | 309 | #330 | 0.29 |
| 1919 | 344 | #291 | 0.35 |
| 1918 | 319 | #317 | 0.31 |
| 1917 | 293 | #312 | 0.32 |
| 1916 | 308 | #293 | 0.35 |
| 1915 | 271 | #316 | 0.32 |
| 1914 | 187 | #339 | 0.29 |
| 1913 | 162 | #316 | 0.32 |
| 1912 | 146 | #296 | 0.34 |
| 1911 | 97 | #263 | 0.43 |
| 1910 | 78 | #276 | 0.40 |
| 1909 | 73 | #260 | 0.45 |
| 1908 | 64 | #265 | 0.41 |
| 1907 | 82 | #225 | 0.56 |
| 1906 | 85 | #206 | 0.64 |
| 1905 | 90 | #195 | 0.68 |
| 1904 | 85 | #201 | 0.66 |
| 1903 | 77 | #201 | 0.65 |
| 1902 | 76 | #204 | 0.62 |
| 1901 | 72 | #197 | 0.68 |
| 1900 | 107 | #189 | 0.71 |
| 1899 | 68 | #197 | 0.64 |
| 1898 | 61 | #225 | 0.50 |
| 1897 | 84 | #183 | 0.74 |
| 1896 | 90 | #178 | 0.75 |
| 1895 | 88 | #180 | 0.75 |
| 1894 | 97 | #158 | 0.84 |
| 1893 | 96 | #153 | 0.85 |
| 1892 | 78 | #196 | 0.64 |
| 1891 | 74 | #176 | 0.73 |
| 1890 | 91 | #155 | 0.82 |
| 1889 | 88 | #156 | 0.80 |
| 1888 | 87 | #172 | 0.72 |
| 1887 | 77 | #163 | 0.76 |
| 1886 | 96 | #143 | 0.87 |
| 1885 | 97 | #139 | 0.90 |
| 1884 | 85 | #163 | 0.74 |
| 1883 | 91 | #140 | 0.87 |
| 1882 | 90 | #153 | 0.79 |
| 1881 | 80 | #154 | 0.79 |
| 1880 | 90 | #151 | 0.81 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Claud a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Claud has been given almost only to boys: 47 girls in 114 years of records.
Girls and boys named Claud: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Claud, and how old are they?
1,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 13% of the 10,940 Americans ever recorded as Claud. The median Claud alive today is 73 years old; half are between 62 and 82.
The 2020 Census counted 1,721 people named Claud (37 women and girls, 1,684 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,936 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 383 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 679 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 230 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 93 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Claud born?
The states with the most babies named Claud are Texas, Georgia and Oklahoma, with 37% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Oklahoma is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 1,005 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Georgia | 646 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Oklahoma | 636 | not ranked | 3.7× |
| Arkansas | 604 | not ranked | 4.1× |
| Alabama | 532 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| North Carolina | 495 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Tennessee | 410 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Kentucky | 366 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Missouri | 356 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Mississippi | 315 | not ranked | 1.8× |
Where Claud is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Claud is most over-represented in Arkansas: since 1910 it was given 4.1 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 boys’ 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 Claud 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 Claud
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 Claud and names like it
- Compare Claud and CiceroBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sClaud peaked in 1919.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Claud since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Claud: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1919The year the most babies were named Claud.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Claud alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.