Cleofas — boys' name

What the Data Says About Cleofas

The Social Security Administration has registered 161 babies named Cleofas between 1923 and 1988, spanning 66 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Cleofas currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1988. The name reached its historical peak in 1924, when 10 babies received it in a single year. Cleofas is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 50 additional births since 1915.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Cleofas performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 46 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Cleofas shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 77 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Cleofas in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Cleofas in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 161 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.