Clell
Clell was last recorded in 1988, when 6 babies were given it; 1,221 Americans have been recorded with it between 1884 and 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Clell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Clell?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #6,554, in 1988; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
49 babies in 1924, the peak
Clell peaked in 1924, when 49 boys were given it, #1,006 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 6 | #6,554 | 3.1 |
| 1980 | 7 | #5,024 | 3.9 |
| 1978 | 5 | #5,956 | 3.0 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,609 | 3.2 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,348 | 3.2 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,223 | 3.2 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,326 | 3.2 |
| 1969 | 6 | #4,022 | 3.4 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,231 | 2.9 |
| 1966 | 7 | #3,293 | 3.9 |
Every recorded year (75)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | 5 | #4,004 | 2.7 |
| 1964 | 9 | #2,894 | 4.5 |
| 1963 | 9 | #2,893 | 4.4 |
| 1962 | 11 | #2,536 | 5.3 |
| 1961 | 10 | #2,741 | 4.7 |
| 1960 | 13 | #2,338 | 6.1 |
| 1959 | 7 | #3,332 | 3.3 |
| 1958 | 16 | #2,034 | 7.5 |
| 1957 | 9 | #2,857 | 4.2 |
| 1956 | 9 | #2,827 | 4.3 |
| 1955 | 10 | #2,600 | 4.9 |
| 1954 | 14 | #2,131 | 6.9 |
| 1953 | 10 | #2,566 | 5.1 |
| 1952 | 11 | #2,399 | 5.7 |
| 1951 | 15 | #1,988 | 8.0 |
| 1949 | 20 | #1,673 | 11.3 |
| 1948 | 15 | #1,955 | 8.5 |
| 1947 | 16 | #1,934 | 8.7 |
| 1946 | 12 | #2,169 | 7.4 |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,024 | 8.9 |
| 1944 | 10 | #2,333 | 7.3 |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,091 | 9.1 |
| 1942 | 13 | #2,058 | 9.4 |
| 1941 | 20 | #1,539 | 16.3 |
| 1940 | 14 | #1,915 | 12.1 |
| 1939 | 17 | #1,652 | 15.4 |
| 1938 | 16 | #1,756 | 14.4 |
| 1937 | 28 | #1,268 | 26.3 |
| 1936 | 28 | #1,249 | 27.0 |
| 1935 | 19 | #1,596 | 18.2 |
| 1934 | 20 | #1,564 | 19.4 |
| 1933 | 23 | #1,413 | 23.2 |
| 1932 | 23 | #1,472 | 22.0 |
| 1931 | 25 | #1,399 | 24.0 |
| 1930 | 27 | #1,404 | 24.6 |
| 1929 | 18 | #1,802 | 16.7 |
| 1928 | 30 | #1,330 | 27.1 |
| 1927 | 33 | #1,274 | 29.3 |
| 1926 | 31 | #1,305 | 27.9 |
| 1925 | 32 | #1,286 | 28.7 |
| 1924 | 49 | #1,006 | 43.3 |
| 1923 | 33 | #1,260 | 30.1 |
| 1922 | 32 | #1,286 | 29.4 |
| 1921 | 31 | #1,333 | 28.1 |
| 1920 | 38 | #1,161 | 35.7 |
| 1919 | 31 | #1,271 | 31.6 |
| 1918 | 35 | #1,177 | 34.5 |
| 1917 | 40 | #1,038 | 43.2 |
| 1916 | 36 | #1,074 | 40.4 |
| 1915 | 39 | #1,021 | 46.0 |
| 1914 | 20 | #1,351 | 30.5 |
| 1913 | 15 | #1,382 | 29.3 |
| 1912 | 9 | #1,768 | 20.9 |
| 1911 | 7 | #1,411 | 31.0 |
| 1909 | 6 | #1,303 | 36.6 |
| 1908 | 10 | #894 | 64.8 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,141 | 45.1 |
| 1905 | 9 | #850 | 68.0 |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,034 | 50.3 |
| 1899 | 9 | #727 | 84.7 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,155 | 40.8 |
| 1895 | 6 | #1,003 | 51.1 |
| 1892 | 8 | #810 | 65.6 |
| 1885 | 6 | #851 | 55.7 |
| 1884 | 5 | #999 | 43.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Clell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Clell has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 75 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Clell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Clell, and how old are they?
An estimated 253 Americans named Clell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (21% of everyone recorded); the median is 71 years old and half are between 63 and 80. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 382 people named Clell (10 women and girls, 372 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 337 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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.
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 1,455 babies since 1880, Clell is the most given (84% 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 Clell
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 Clell and names like it
- Compare Clell and KellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sClell peaked in 1924.
- Kentucky’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Clell since 1910.
- The top names of 1924The year the most babies were named Clell.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Clell alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.