Claudius
Claudius was given to 6 boys in 2025, #10,926 among boys’ names; 928 Americans have been recorded with it since 1890 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Claudius by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Claudius mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Claudius is “a male given name from Latin.”
From Latin Claudius. Doublet of Claude.
/ˈklɔdiəs/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Claudius?
#10,926 among boys’ names, 2025
Claudius entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #10,926 in 2025.
23 babies in 1916, the peak
Claudius peaked in 1916, when 23 boys were given it, #1,465 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 26% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #10,926 | 3.5 |
| 2019 | 5 | #12,517 | 2.8 |
| 2018 | 7 | #9,866 | 3.9 |
| 2013 | 7 | #9,837 | 3.7 |
| 2012 | 5 | #12,615 | 2.6 |
| 2004 | 5 | #11,668 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 7 | #8,816 | 3.5 |
| 2001 | 5 | #10,859 | 2.6 |
| 2000 | 6 | #9,281 | 3.1 |
| 1999 | 10 | #6,116 | 5.2 |
Every recorded year (94)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 7 | #7,416 | 3.7 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,117 | 3.2 |
| 1994 | 10 | #5,516 | 5.2 |
| 1993 | 7 | #6,939 | 3.6 |
| 1992 | 7 | #6,778 | 3.5 |
| 1991 | 7 | #6,630 | 3.5 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,525 | 3.4 |
| 1989 | 13 | #4,055 | 6.5 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,067 | 3.3 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,243 | 3.8 |
| 1983 | 10 | #3,925 | 5.6 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,539 | 2.8 |
| 1981 | 7 | #5,036 | 3.9 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,566 | 4.5 |
| 1979 | 11 | #3,603 | 6.4 |
| 1978 | 12 | #3,245 | 7.3 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,236 | 3.7 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,031 | 3.8 |
| 1975 | 10 | #3,480 | 6.4 |
| 1974 | 6 | #4,717 | 3.8 |
| 1972 | 10 | #3,192 | 6.2 |
| 1970 | 5 | #4,822 | 2.7 |
| 1969 | 9 | #3,102 | 5.0 |
| 1968 | 7 | #3,422 | 4.0 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,618 | 3.4 |
| 1966 | 6 | #3,588 | 3.4 |
| 1965 | 7 | #3,292 | 3.8 |
| 1964 | 8 | #3,084 | 4.0 |
| 1963 | 10 | #2,701 | 4.9 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,137 | 2.4 |
| 1961 | 8 | #3,142 | 3.8 |
| 1960 | 8 | #3,131 | 3.8 |
| 1959 | 13 | #2,317 | 6.1 |
| 1958 | 7 | #3,322 | 3.3 |
| 1957 | 10 | #2,667 | 4.6 |
| 1956 | 16 | #2,027 | 7.6 |
| 1955 | 9 | #2,800 | 4.4 |
| 1954 | 10 | #2,615 | 4.9 |
| 1953 | 10 | #2,565 | 5.1 |
| 1952 | 8 | #2,910 | 4.1 |
| 1951 | 12 | #2,269 | 6.4 |
| 1950 | 9 | #2,608 | 5.0 |
| 1949 | 6 | #3,371 | 3.4 |
| 1948 | 9 | #2,638 | 5.1 |
| 1947 | 8 | #2,911 | 4.4 |
| 1946 | 9 | #2,563 | 5.5 |
| 1945 | 6 | #3,043 | 4.5 |
| 1944 | 7 | #2,907 | 5.1 |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,195 | 8.4 |
| 1942 | 13 | #2,056 | 9.4 |
| 1940 | 14 | #1,914 | 12.1 |
| 1939 | 12 | #2,077 | 10.8 |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,208 | 9.9 |
| 1937 | 7 | #2,952 | 6.6 |
| 1936 | 8 | #2,672 | 7.7 |
| 1935 | 16 | #1,772 | 15.4 |
| 1934 | 17 | #1,733 | 16.5 |
| 1933 | 15 | #1,840 | 15.1 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,133 | 6.7 |
| 1931 | 15 | #1,946 | 14.4 |
| 1930 | 11 | #2,469 | 10.0 |
| 1929 | 13 | #2,225 | 12.1 |
| 1928 | 15 | #2,063 | 13.5 |
| 1927 | 15 | #2,131 | 13.3 |
| 1926 | 12 | #2,450 | 10.8 |
| 1925 | 12 | #2,459 | 10.8 |
| 1924 | 17 | #1,972 | 15.0 |
| 1923 | 16 | #2,036 | 14.6 |
| 1922 | 17 | #1,966 | 15.6 |
| 1921 | 12 | #2,515 | 10.9 |
| 1920 | 18 | #1,898 | 16.9 |
| 1919 | 16 | #1,988 | 16.3 |
| 1918 | 18 | #1,839 | 17.8 |
| 1917 | 17 | #1,831 | 18.4 |
| 1916 | 23 | #1,465 | 25.8 |
| 1915 | 19 | #1,613 | 22.4 |
| 1914 | 12 | #1,887 | 18.3 |
| 1913 | 15 | #1,381 | 29.3 |
| 1912 | 8 | #1,913 | 18.6 |
| 1910 | 8 | #1,217 | 41.2 |
| 1909 | 8 | #1,097 | 48.8 |
| 1895 | 6 | #1,001 | 51.1 |
| 1893 | 8 | #780 | 71.2 |
| 1890 | 6 | #907 | 54.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Claudius a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Claudius has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 94 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Claudius: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Claudius, and how old are they?
An estimated 402 Americans named Claudius and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (43% of everyone recorded); the median is 51 years old and half are between 35 and 69. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 778 people named Claudius (13 women and girls, 765 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 451 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,292 babies since 1880, Claudius is the most given (72% 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 Claudius
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 Claudius and names like it
- Compare Claudius and ClaudisBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sClaudius peaked in 1916.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Claudius since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Claudius: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1916The year the most babies were named Claudius.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Claudius alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.