Claudette
Claudette was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,262 among girls’ names; 18,795 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 11,900 Americans named Claudette and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (63% of everyone recorded); the median is 71 years old and half are between 60 and 79.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Claudette by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Claudette mean?
Wiktionary, French section
Claudette is “a female given name, a feminine diminutive form of Claude”
/klo.dɛt/
Meaning: Wiktionary, French section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Claudette?
#10,262 among girls’ names, 2025
Claudette fell from #8,560 in 2015 to #10,262 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 7.3 to 5.6 per million.
709 babies in 1936, the peak
Claudette peaked in 1936, when 709 babies were given it (703 girls, #232 among girls’ names). The 9 births of 2025 are 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,262 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,454 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 6 | #13,807 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,424 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,709 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,071 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,885 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,298 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,525 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,010 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (111)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 13 | #8,560 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,144 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,480 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,867 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,382 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,606 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,008 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,826 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 19 | #6,883 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,221 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 23 | #5,476 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 30 | #4,518 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 43 | #3,365 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 22 | #5,299 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,856 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,016 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 28 | #4,105 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 22 | #4,822 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 27 | #4,026 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,850 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 27 | #3,896 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,487 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 26 | #4,006 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,106 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 34 | #3,220 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 31 | #3,445 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 45 | #2,529 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 42 | #2,546 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 40 | #2,535 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 37 | #2,630 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 55 | #1,976 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 45 | #2,194 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 46 | #2,136 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 70 | #1,643 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 66 | #1,715 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 89 | #1,399 | 0.05 |
| 1979 | 100 | #1,274 | 0.06 |
| 1978 | 94 | #1,290 | 0.06 |
| 1977 | 112 | #1,132 | 0.07 |
| 1976 | 123 | #1,016 | 0.08 |
| 1975 | 118 | #1,023 | 0.08 |
| 1974 | 118 | #1,017 | 0.08 |
| 1973 | 147 | #876 | 0.10 |
| 1972 | 142 | #889 | 0.09 |
| 1971 | 156 | #865 | 0.09 |
| 1970 | 198 | #744 | 0.11 |
| 1969 | 184 | #746 | 0.11 |
| 1968 | 172 | #757 | 0.10 |
| 1967 | 201 | #684 | 0.12 |
| 1966 | 216 | #656 | 0.13 |
| 1965 | 229 | #647 | 0.13 |
| 1964 | 292 | #578 | 0.15 |
| 1963 | 286 | #588 | 0.15 |
| 1962 | 331 | #535 | 0.17 |
| 1961 | 305 | #575 | 0.15 |
| 1960 | 329 | #531 | 0.16 |
| 1959 | 371 | #506 | 0.18 |
| 1958 | 395 | #477 | 0.20 |
| 1957 | 371 | #492 | 0.18 |
| 1956 | 423 | #445 | 0.21 |
| 1955 | 379 | #465 | 0.19 |
| 1954 | 393 | #442 | 0.20 |
| 1953 | 404 | #436 | 0.21 |
| 1952 | 468 | #381 | 0.25 |
| 1951 | 500 | #357 | 0.28 |
| 1950 | 488 | #355 | 0.28 |
| 1949 | 551 | #331 | 0.32 |
| 1948 | 542 | #334 | 0.32 |
| 1947 | 582 | #324 | 0.33 |
| 1946 | 490 | #333 | 0.31 |
| 1945 | 445 | #322 | 0.34 |
| 1944 | 435 | #326 | 0.33 |
| 1943 | 481 | #317 | 0.34 |
| 1942 | 526 | #299 | 0.39 |
| 1941 | 477 | #296 | 0.39 |
| 1940 | 518 | #274 | 0.45 |
| 1939 | 539 | #265 | 0.49 |
| 1938 | 687 | #238 | 0.62 |
| 1937 | 642 | #247 | 0.60 |
| 1936 | 703 | #232 | 0.68 |
| 1935 | 704 | #238 | 0.67 |
| 1934 | 441 | #293 | 0.42 |
| 1933 | 261 | #399 | 0.26 |
| 1932 | 180 | #493 | 0.17 |
| 1931 | 117 | #614 | 0.11 |
| 1930 | 60 | #943 | 0.05 |
| 1929 | 23 | #1,651 | 0.02 |
| 1928 | 10 | #2,982 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 17 | #2,183 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 15 | #2,367 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,529 | under 0.01 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,552 | under 0.01 |
| 1923 | 12 | #2,758 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,635 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,095 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 10 | #3,148 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 12 | #2,669 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 12 | #2,702 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 11 | #2,727 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 11 | #2,692 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,861 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Claudette a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Claudette has been given almost only to girls: 11 boys in 111 years of records.
Girls and boys named Claudette: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Claudette, and how old are they?
11,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 63% of the 18,795 Americans ever recorded as Claudette. The median Claudette alive today is 71 years old; half are between 60 and 79.
The 2020 Census counted 17,470 people named Claudette (17,446 women and girls, 24 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 13,829 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2,590 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 6,000 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,210 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 615 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 334 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 125 |
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 Claudette born?
The states with the most babies named Claudette are New York, California and Illinois, with 24% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 1,486 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| California | 1,228 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 1,030 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Texas | 967 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Louisiana | 936 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Massachusetts | 820 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Maine | 659 | not ranked | 5.4× |
| Michigan | 649 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 586 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 548 | not ranked | 0.9× |
Where Claudette is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Claudette is most over-represented in Maine: since 1915 it was given 5.4 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 Claudette 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 19,081 babies since 1880, Claudette is the most given (99% of them).
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 Claudette
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 Claudette and names like it
- Compare Claudette and ClaudettaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sClaudette peaked in 1936.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Claudette since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Claudette: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1936The year the most babies were named Claudette.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Claudette alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.