Claude
Claude was given to 40 boys in 2025, #3,043 among boys’ names; 92,289 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 27,000 Americans named Claude and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (29% of everyone recorded); the median is 68 years old and half are between 55 and 77.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Claude by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Claude mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Claude is “a male given name from Latin.”
In use from the 16th century. Borrowed from French Claude, from Latin Claudius, the name of a Roman gens. The clan name is traditionally said to be from Latin claudus (“lame”), but is most likely of Sabine origin.
/ˈklɔd/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Claude?
#3,043 among boys’ names, 2025
Claude fell from #2,432 in 2015 to #3,043 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 27.1 to 23.4 per million.
1,910 babies in 1920, the peak
Claude peaked in 1920, when 1,910 babies were given it (1,893 boys, #92 among boys’ names). The 40 births of 2025 are 2% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 40 | #3,043 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 35 | #3,343 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 39 | #3,127 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 34 | #3,422 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 38 | #3,133 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 44 | #2,767 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 42 | #2,902 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 51 | #2,514 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 40 | #2,964 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 55 | #2,368 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 52 | #2,432 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 42 | #2,813 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 43 | #2,720 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 45 | #2,684 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 47 | #2,594 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 55 | #2,331 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 58 | #2,257 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 66 | #2,092 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 58 | #2,263 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 62 | #2,108 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 70 | #1,838 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 65 | #1,881 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 82 | #1,548 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 70 | #1,681 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 69 | #1,675 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 99 | #1,299 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 91 | #1,318 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 93 | #1,285 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 89 | #1,283 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 108 | #1,106 | 0.06 |
| 1995 | 113 | #1,052 | 0.06 |
| 1994 | 119 | #1,013 | 0.06 |
| 1993 | 143 | #896 | 0.07 |
| 1992 | 142 | #886 | 0.07 |
| 1991 | 146 | #866 | 0.07 |
| 1990 | 151 | #832 | 0.07 |
| 1989 | 170 | #754 | 0.08 |
| 1988 | 181 | #696 | 0.09 |
| 1987 | 209 | #634 | 0.11 |
| 1986 | 177 | #677 | 0.10 |
| 1985 | 189 | #639 | 0.10 |
| 1984 | 188 | #622 | 0.10 |
| 1983 | 184 | #628 | 0.10 |
| 1982 | 235 | #560 | 0.13 |
| 1981 | 233 | #560 | 0.13 |
| 1980 | 268 | #524 | 0.15 |
| 1979 | 269 | #512 | 0.16 |
| 1978 | 262 | #498 | 0.16 |
| 1977 | 255 | #515 | 0.16 |
| 1976 | 268 | #484 | 0.17 |
| 1975 | 316 | #449 | 0.20 |
| 1974 | 319 | #443 | 0.20 |
| 1973 | 324 | #433 | 0.21 |
| 1972 | 362 | #417 | 0.22 |
| 1971 | 422 | #391 | 0.24 |
| 1970 | 447 | #383 | 0.24 |
| 1969 | 448 | #368 | 0.25 |
| 1968 | 530 | #332 | 0.30 |
| 1967 | 506 | #334 | 0.29 |
| 1966 | 547 | #317 | 0.31 |
| 1965 | 603 | #308 | 0.32 |
| 1964 | 717 | #293 | 0.36 |
| 1963 | 743 | #282 | 0.37 |
| 1962 | 701 | #292 | 0.34 |
| 1961 | 804 | #277 | 0.38 |
| 1960 | 837 | #277 | 0.39 |
| 1959 | 852 | #270 | 0.40 |
| 1958 | 951 | #253 | 0.45 |
| 1957 | 1,024 | #242 | 0.47 |
| 1956 | 1,003 | #231 | 0.47 |
| 1955 | 1,084 | #218 | 0.53 |
| 1954 | 1,142 | #208 | 0.56 |
| 1953 | 1,139 | #204 | 0.58 |
| 1952 | 1,144 | #197 | 0.59 |
| 1951 | 1,239 | #188 | 0.66 |
| 1950 | 1,253 | #177 | 0.70 |
| 1949 | 1,219 | #176 | 0.69 |
| 1948 | 1,346 | #168 | 0.77 |
| 1947 | 1,433 | #167 | 0.78 |
| 1946 | 1,306 | #163 | 0.80 |
| 1945 | 1,166 | #159 | 0.87 |
| 1944 | 1,289 | #154 | 0.95 |
| 1943 | 1,364 | #152 | 1.0 |
| 1942 | 1,314 | #149 | 1.0 |
| 1941 | 1,189 | #151 | 1.0 |
| 1940 | 1,194 | #145 | 1.0 |
| 1939 | 1,157 | #141 | 1.0 |
| 1938 | 1,311 | #131 | 1.2 |
| 1937 | 1,138 | #137 | 1.1 |
| 1936 | 1,225 | #132 | 1.2 |
| 1935 | 1,264 | #129 | 1.2 |
| 1934 | 1,264 | #130 | 1.2 |
| 1933 | 1,253 | #131 | 1.3 |
| 1932 | 1,352 | #126 | 1.3 |
| 1931 | 1,296 | #134 | 1.2 |
| 1930 | 1,481 | #122 | 1.3 |
| 1929 | 1,449 | #119 | 1.3 |
| 1928 | 1,533 | #116 | 1.4 |
| 1927 | 1,621 | #114 | 1.4 |
| 1926 | 1,714 | #106 | 1.5 |
| 1925 | 1,696 | #102 | 1.5 |
| 1924 | 1,706 | #103 | 1.5 |
| 1923 | 1,694 | #103 | 1.5 |
| 1922 | 1,806 | #97 | 1.7 |
| 1921 | 1,887 | #96 | 1.7 |
| 1920 | 1,893 | #92 | 1.8 |
| 1919 | 1,772 | #92 | 1.8 |
| 1918 | 1,878 | #95 | 1.9 |
| 1917 | 1,625 | #98 | 1.8 |
| 1916 | 1,733 | #93 | 1.9 |
| 1915 | 1,605 | #96 | 1.9 |
| 1914 | 1,284 | #93 | 2.0 |
| 1913 | 1,076 | #88 | 2.1 |
| 1912 | 890 | #89 | 2.1 |
| 1911 | 466 | #87 | 2.1 |
| 1910 | 463 | #78 | 2.4 |
| 1909 | 419 | #74 | 2.6 |
| 1908 | 428 | #69 | 2.8 |
| 1907 | 364 | #74 | 2.5 |
| 1906 | 346 | #73 | 2.6 |
| 1905 | 399 | #63 | 3.0 |
| 1904 | 337 | #70 | 2.6 |
| 1903 | 301 | #71 | 2.5 |
| 1902 | 336 | #68 | 2.7 |
| 1901 | 341 | #58 | 3.2 |
| 1900 | 433 | #59 | 2.9 |
| 1899 | 293 | #63 | 2.8 |
| 1898 | 371 | #59 | 3.0 |
| 1897 | 345 | #59 | 3.1 |
| 1896 | 398 | #54 | 3.3 |
| 1895 | 389 | #55 | 3.3 |
| 1894 | 419 | #53 | 3.6 |
| 1893 | 394 | #52 | 3.5 |
| 1892 | 353 | #62 | 2.9 |
| 1891 | 327 | #57 | 3.2 |
| 1890 | 347 | #57 | 3.1 |
| 1889 | 386 | #49 | 3.5 |
| 1888 | 374 | #55 | 3.1 |
| 1887 | 375 | #46 | 3.7 |
| 1886 | 391 | #48 | 3.5 |
| 1885 | 343 | #52 | 3.2 |
| 1884 | 353 | #54 | 3.1 |
| 1883 | 315 | #54 | 3.0 |
| 1882 | 356 | #50 | 3.1 |
| 1881 | 302 | #53 | 3.0 |
| 1880 | 309 | #56 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Claude a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 92,289 Americans recorded as Claude, 1% are girls and 99% boys. In 2025 it went to 40 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Claude: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Claude, and how old are they?
27,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 29% of the 92,289 Americans ever recorded as Claude. The median Claude alive today is 68 years old; half are between 55 and 77.
The 2020 Census counted 33,429 people named Claude (709 women and girls, 32,720 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 32,907 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 4,400 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 12,900 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5,450 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,560 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,100 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 551 |
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 Claude born?
The states with the most babies named Claude are Texas, North Carolina and Virginia, with 20% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Virginia is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 5,551 | #2,649 | 1.2× |
| North Carolina | 5,410 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Virginia | 4,425 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Tennessee | 4,291 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Georgia | 3,845 | #1,388 | 1.6× |
| New York | 3,573 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Louisiana | 3,440 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Kentucky | 3,068 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Alabama | 3,048 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| South Carolina | 2,737 | not ranked | 1.8× |
Where Claude is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Claude is most over-represented in Virginia: since 1910 it was given 2.3 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 Claude with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 109,060 babies since 1880, Claude is the most given (85% of them). In 2025 it was given to 40 of their 70 babies (57%), again the most given.
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 Claude
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 Claude and names like it
- Compare Claude and ClaudBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sClaude peaked in 1920.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Claude since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Claude: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1920The year the most babies were named Claude.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Claude alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.