Cleophus
Cleophus was last recorded in 2007, when 7 babies were given it; 2,042 Americans have been recorded with it between 1904 and 2007 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cleophus by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cleophus?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,951, in 2007; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
46 babies in 1947, the peak
Cleophus peaked in 1947, when 46 boys were given it, #1,064 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 7 | #9,951 | 3.4 |
| 2001 | 5 | #10,866 | 2.6 |
| 2000 | 5 | #10,648 | 2.5 |
| 1999 | 6 | #8,886 | 3.1 |
| 1997 | 9 | #6,169 | 4.8 |
| 1996 | 10 | #5,596 | 5.3 |
| 1995 | 5 | #9,090 | 2.6 |
| 1994 | 6 | #7,941 | 3.1 |
| 1993 | 7 | #6,940 | 3.6 |
| 1992 | 11 | #4,924 | 5.5 |
Every recorded year (94)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 8 | #6,036 | 4.0 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,526 | 3.4 |
| 1989 | 12 | #4,311 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 11 | #4,209 | 5.7 |
| 1987 | 18 | #2,853 | 9.6 |
| 1986 | 11 | #3,922 | 6.0 |
| 1985 | 11 | #3,837 | 6.0 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,068 | 3.9 |
| 1983 | 12 | #3,440 | 6.7 |
| 1982 | 13 | #3,317 | 7.2 |
| 1981 | 14 | #3,062 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 13 | #3,286 | 7.3 |
| 1979 | 18 | #2,598 | 10.5 |
| 1978 | 20 | #2,294 | 12.2 |
| 1977 | 19 | #2,379 | 11.6 |
| 1976 | 8 | #4,069 | 5.1 |
| 1975 | 21 | #2,143 | 13.4 |
| 1974 | 14 | #2,689 | 8.9 |
| 1973 | 10 | #3,262 | 6.4 |
| 1972 | 19 | #2,095 | 11.7 |
| 1971 | 23 | #1,873 | 13.0 |
| 1970 | 18 | #2,132 | 9.7 |
| 1969 | 21 | #1,814 | 11.7 |
| 1968 | 18 | #1,901 | 10.4 |
| 1967 | 26 | #1,514 | 14.9 |
| 1966 | 23 | #1,619 | 12.9 |
| 1965 | 23 | #1,630 | 12.4 |
| 1964 | 31 | #1,408 | 15.6 |
| 1963 | 16 | #2,054 | 7.9 |
| 1962 | 27 | #1,521 | 13.1 |
| 1961 | 28 | #1,526 | 13.2 |
| 1960 | 34 | #1,364 | 15.9 |
| 1959 | 33 | #1,365 | 15.5 |
| 1958 | 38 | #1,252 | 17.9 |
| 1957 | 42 | #1,200 | 19.5 |
| 1956 | 40 | #1,204 | 18.9 |
| 1955 | 39 | #1,200 | 18.9 |
| 1954 | 29 | #1,412 | 14.2 |
| 1953 | 34 | #1,288 | 17.2 |
| 1952 | 35 | #1,246 | 18.0 |
| 1951 | 30 | #1,349 | 15.9 |
| 1950 | 36 | #1,205 | 20.1 |
| 1949 | 36 | #1,185 | 20.3 |
| 1948 | 36 | #1,199 | 20.5 |
| 1947 | 46 | #1,064 | 25.1 |
| 1946 | 27 | #1,358 | 16.6 |
| 1945 | 38 | #1,041 | 28.2 |
| 1944 | 27 | #1,289 | 19.8 |
| 1943 | 22 | #1,492 | 15.4 |
| 1942 | 35 | #1,169 | 25.3 |
| 1941 | 26 | #1,303 | 21.2 |
| 1940 | 24 | #1,374 | 20.7 |
| 1939 | 37 | #1,057 | 33.4 |
| 1938 | 26 | #1,316 | 23.4 |
| 1937 | 20 | #1,540 | 18.8 |
| 1936 | 30 | #1,210 | 28.9 |
| 1935 | 29 | #1,251 | 27.8 |
| 1934 | 36 | #1,097 | 34.9 |
| 1933 | 29 | #1,235 | 29.2 |
| 1932 | 29 | #1,261 | 27.8 |
| 1931 | 32 | #1,218 | 30.8 |
| 1930 | 29 | #1,340 | 26.4 |
| 1929 | 28 | #1,344 | 26.0 |
| 1928 | 33 | #1,257 | 29.8 |
| 1927 | 23 | #1,610 | 20.4 |
| 1926 | 37 | #1,177 | 33.3 |
| 1925 | 34 | #1,231 | 30.5 |
| 1924 | 35 | #1,227 | 30.9 |
| 1923 | 35 | #1,218 | 31.9 |
| 1922 | 21 | #1,705 | 19.3 |
| 1921 | 22 | #1,657 | 20.0 |
| 1920 | 19 | #1,833 | 17.9 |
| 1919 | 21 | #1,638 | 21.4 |
| 1918 | 16 | #2,014 | 15.8 |
| 1917 | 17 | #1,833 | 18.4 |
| 1916 | 14 | #2,061 | 15.7 |
| 1915 | 14 | #1,989 | 16.5 |
| 1914 | 18 | #1,450 | 27.5 |
| 1913 | 9 | #1,972 | 17.6 |
| 1912 | 11 | #1,544 | 25.6 |
| 1911 | 6 | #1,571 | 26.6 |
| 1908 | 5 | #1,417 | 32.4 |
| 1905 | 5 | #1,266 | 37.8 |
| 1904 | 5 | #1,239 | 39.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Cleophus a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cleophus has been given almost only to boys: 19 girls in 94 years of records.
Girls and boys named Cleophus: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cleophus, and how old are they?
An estimated 962 Americans named Cleophus and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (47% of everyone recorded); the median is 63 years old and half are between 49 and 73. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 809 people named Cleophus (23 women and girls, 786 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,123 born in the U.S. The Census count is 28% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 Cleophus born?
The states with the most babies named Cleophus are Alabama, Arkansas and Texas, with 86% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Alabama and Arkansas are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 350 | not ranked | 7.5× |
| Arkansas | 83 | not ranked | 2.9× |
| Texas | 46 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Mississippi | 31 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 24 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| South Carolina | 10 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Louisiana | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Michigan | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Cleophus is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Cleophus is most over-represented in Alabama: since 1910 it was given 7.5 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 boys’ 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 Cleophus 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 3,025 babies since 1880, Cleophus is the most given (68% 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 Cleophus
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 Cleophus and names like it
- Compare Cleophus and CleophasBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sCleophus peaked in 1947.
- Alabama’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cleophus since 1910.
- The top names of 1947The year the most babies were named Cleophus.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Cleophus alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.