Claudell — boys' name

What the Data Says About Claudell

The Social Security Administration has registered 576 babies named Claudell between 1918 and 2000, spanning 83 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Claudell currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2000. The name reached its historical peak in 1940, when 19 babies received it in a single year. Claudell is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 302 additional births since 1918.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Claudell performed strongest in the 1940s, accumulating 128 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Claudell shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Louisiana, which accounts for 28 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Claudell in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Claudell 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 576 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.