Girls' name · since 1915
Claudette
Claudette has 18,784 recorded births since 1915 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1935 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #1,108 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #10,169 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 18,784
- born since 1915
- 1940s
- peak decade
Claudette currently ranks #10169 among girls' names in America, with 18,784 babies recorded since 1915.
Claudette has 18,784 recorded births among girls since 1915, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #10169 as of the latest data, more common than 41% of girls, busiest in the 1940s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1915 to 2025.
- #1,108 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #10,169 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 18,784 born since 1915
- 1940s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Claudette ranks #1,108 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #10,169 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 18,784 born since 1915, peaking in the 1940s.
- #1,108 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #10,169 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 18,784
- born since 1915
- 1940s
- peak decade
Claudette's 18,784 recorded births place it above 98.46% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
48 jurisdictions carry state-level records, led by New York.
How Claudette compares
18,784 Top 7% higher than 93% of 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Claudette's all-time total is 50x the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Claudette | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 18,784 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 704 | 21 | 19,840 |
Claudette's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Claudette splits its recorded history at 1970: 13% of all births land in the more recent half, 87% in the earlier half, leaning more toward its earlier era than today's. The single quietest year was 1915 (6 births) -- compare that against the 1935 peak of 704 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Claudette popularity over time - girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1915–2025
- Peak year (1935)
- 704
- Annual births at peak, across 111 years of records
Claudette popularity over time - boys
11 total births recorded since 1936 (Claudette as boys' name)
Claudette by decade
1940s is the heaviest window (5,047 births, 27% of the file).
1940s was Claudette's strongest decade.
5,047 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 27% of all-time use.
Claudette births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1910s 52
1910s
52 births
- 1920s 119
1920s
119 births
- 1930s
1930s
4,334 births
- 1940s
1940s
5,047 births
- 1950s
1950s
4,192 births
- 1960s
1960s
2,545 births
- 1970s 1,308
1970s
1,308 births
- 1980s 535
1980s
535 births
- 1990s 265
1990s
265 births
- 2000s 225
2000s
225 births
- 2010s 109
2010s
109 births
- 2020s 53
2020s
53 births
What this shows Peak: 1940s at 5,047 births (27% of all-time use).
How Claudette compares to similarly-sized names
Years in SSA records vs. share of all-time use concentrated in the single peak year, among 15 girls names closest to Claudette's total volume
Claudette by state
Where Claudette concentrates geographically, total births since 1915
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 1,486 | 7.9% |
| #2 | California | | 1,228 | 6.5% |
| #3 | Illinois | | 1,030 | 5.5% |
| #4 | Texas | | 967 | 5.1% |
| #5 | Louisiana | | 936 | 5.0% |
| #6 | Massachusetts | | 820 | 4.4% |
| #7 | Maine | | 659 | 3.5% |
| #8 | Michigan | | 649 | 3.5% |
1,486 of 18,784 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 48 reporting states.
Claudette appears in 48 states. Explore state details →
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What to do with Claudette's data
- Claudette's decade-level peak was the 1940s (5,047 total births); usage has since declined to 53 in the 2020s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
- New York records the most Claudettes (1,486 births) -- see the full state breakdown if geography matters to your decision. New York names
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Nationwide names with similar peak year or record span
Two nationwide peer axes for Claudette: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1935)
Similar record span (~110 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1915–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Claudette draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.