Claudine
Claudine was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 11,338 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,620 Americans named Claudine and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (50% of everyone recorded); the median is 58 years old and half are between 53 and 73.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Claudine by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Claudine mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Claudine is “a female given name from French.”
French Claudine
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Claudine?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,843, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
442 babies in 1970, the peak
Claudine peaked in 1970, when 442 girls were given it, #468 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #13,843 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,485 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,211 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,084 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 5 | #17,128 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 5 | #17,456 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,383 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,535 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,658 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,071 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (135)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 10 | #11,005 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,908 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,593 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,473 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,828 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,770 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 28 | #4,338 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,752 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 24 | #4,605 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,389 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,057 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 27 | #3,959 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 27 | #3,897 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 20 | #4,877 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,463 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 21 | #4,719 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 24 | #4,226 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,605 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 26 | #3,799 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 20 | #4,341 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 32 | #2,979 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 21 | #3,906 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 32 | #2,873 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 35 | #2,633 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 22 | #3,576 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 28 | #3,103 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 40 | #2,417 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 54 | #1,966 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 59 | #1,815 | 0.04 |
| 1978 | 60 | #1,730 | 0.04 |
| 1977 | 114 | #1,119 | 0.07 |
| 1976 | 104 | #1,134 | 0.07 |
| 1975 | 141 | #918 | 0.10 |
| 1974 | 150 | #867 | 0.10 |
| 1973 | 158 | #830 | 0.11 |
| 1972 | 256 | #613 | 0.17 |
| 1971 | 335 | #542 | 0.20 |
| 1970 | 442 | #468 | 0.25 |
| 1969 | 311 | #560 | 0.18 |
| 1968 | 322 | #533 | 0.20 |
| 1967 | 296 | #547 | 0.18 |
| 1966 | 138 | #851 | 0.08 |
| 1965 | 102 | #1,033 | 0.06 |
| 1964 | 92 | #1,147 | 0.05 |
| 1963 | 74 | #1,281 | 0.04 |
| 1962 | 58 | #1,459 | 0.03 |
| 1961 | 57 | #1,481 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 54 | #1,503 | 0.03 |
| 1959 | 69 | #1,291 | 0.03 |
| 1958 | 66 | #1,303 | 0.03 |
| 1957 | 89 | #1,109 | 0.04 |
| 1956 | 82 | #1,141 | 0.04 |
| 1955 | 87 | #1,082 | 0.04 |
| 1954 | 104 | #945 | 0.05 |
| 1953 | 86 | #1,040 | 0.05 |
| 1952 | 111 | #873 | 0.06 |
| 1951 | 117 | #829 | 0.06 |
| 1950 | 106 | #858 | 0.06 |
| 1949 | 144 | #705 | 0.08 |
| 1948 | 116 | #801 | 0.07 |
| 1947 | 128 | #759 | 0.07 |
| 1946 | 135 | #688 | 0.09 |
| 1945 | 119 | #682 | 0.09 |
| 1944 | 139 | #622 | 0.10 |
| 1943 | 143 | #634 | 0.10 |
| 1942 | 123 | #676 | 0.09 |
| 1941 | 135 | #607 | 0.11 |
| 1940 | 163 | #536 | 0.14 |
| 1939 | 159 | #526 | 0.14 |
| 1938 | 180 | #498 | 0.16 |
| 1937 | 169 | #505 | 0.16 |
| 1936 | 137 | #557 | 0.13 |
| 1935 | 193 | #460 | 0.18 |
| 1934 | 168 | #497 | 0.16 |
| 1933 | 151 | #517 | 0.15 |
| 1932 | 160 | #518 | 0.15 |
| 1931 | 161 | #515 | 0.15 |
| 1930 | 208 | #467 | 0.18 |
| 1929 | 176 | #510 | 0.16 |
| 1928 | 197 | #488 | 0.17 |
| 1927 | 207 | #485 | 0.17 |
| 1926 | 186 | #512 | 0.16 |
| 1925 | 202 | #491 | 0.17 |
| 1924 | 195 | #508 | 0.16 |
| 1923 | 160 | #569 | 0.13 |
| 1922 | 190 | #505 | 0.16 |
| 1921 | 179 | #530 | 0.15 |
| 1920 | 178 | #529 | 0.15 |
| 1919 | 172 | #517 | 0.15 |
| 1918 | 191 | #492 | 0.16 |
| 1917 | 150 | #548 | 0.14 |
| 1916 | 142 | #563 | 0.14 |
| 1915 | 129 | #566 | 0.13 |
| 1914 | 77 | #662 | 0.10 |
| 1913 | 58 | #680 | 0.09 |
| 1912 | 67 | #598 | 0.12 |
| 1911 | 43 | #660 | 0.10 |
| 1910 | 51 | #577 | 0.13 |
| 1909 | 41 | #608 | 0.12 |
| 1908 | 30 | #713 | 0.09 |
| 1907 | 22 | #797 | 0.07 |
| 1906 | 18 | #876 | 0.06 |
| 1905 | 28 | #667 | 0.10 |
| 1904 | 19 | #839 | 0.07 |
| 1903 | 17 | #839 | 0.06 |
| 1902 | 19 | #801 | 0.07 |
| 1901 | 14 | #883 | 0.06 |
| 1900 | 9 | #1,339 | 0.03 |
| 1899 | 12 | #938 | 0.05 |
| 1898 | 27 | #621 | 0.10 |
| 1897 | 7 | #1,285 | 0.03 |
| 1896 | 13 | #909 | 0.05 |
| 1895 | 10 | #1,068 | 0.04 |
| 1894 | 10 | #1,012 | 0.04 |
| 1893 | 17 | #721 | 0.08 |
| 1892 | 8 | #1,101 | 0.04 |
| 1891 | 8 | #1,026 | 0.04 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,367 | 0.03 |
| 1888 | 6 | #1,166 | 0.03 |
| 1887 | 6 | #1,058 | 0.04 |
| 1886 | 6 | #1,007 | 0.04 |
| 1885 | 5 | #1,073 | 0.04 |
| 1882 | 6 | #832 | 0.06 |
| 1881 | 5 | #851 | 0.05 |
| 1880 | 6 | #762 | 0.07 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Claudine a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Claudine has been given almost only to girls: 15 boys in 135 years of records.
Girls and boys named Claudine: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Claudine, and how old are they?
5,620 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 50% of the 11,338 Americans ever recorded as Claudine. The median Claudine alive today is 58 years old; half are between 53 and 73.
The 2020 Census counted 8,026 people named Claudine (8,001 women and girls, 25 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,449 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% 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 | 797 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,340 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,800 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 396 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 230 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 33 |
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 Claudine born?
The states with the most babies named Claudine are New York, California and Texas, with 35% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 991 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| California | 848 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Texas | 716 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Virginia | 410 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Georgia | 401 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 371 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Mississippi | 349 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Oklahoma | 308 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 274 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Missouri | 269 | not ranked | 0.9× |
Where Claudine is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Claudine is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1910 it was given 1.7 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 Claudine 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 12,538 babies since 1880, Claudine is the most given (90% 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 Claudine
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 Claudine and names like it
- Compare Claudine and ClaudeneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sClaudine peaked in 1970.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Claudine since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Claudine: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Claudine.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Claudine alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with CMost given first.