Clide
Clide was last recorded in 1960, when 5 babies were given it; 755 Americans have been recorded with it between 1883 and 1960 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Clide by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Clide?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #4,133, in 1960; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
35 babies in 1918, the peak
Clide peaked in 1918, when 35 babies were given it (25 boys, #1,453 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 5 | #4,133 | 2.3 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,086 | 2.3 |
| 1956 | 8 | #3,009 | 3.8 |
| 1955 | 5 | #3,970 | 2.4 |
| 1954 | 10 | #2,617 | 4.9 |
| 1953 | 7 | #3,190 | 3.5 |
| 1951 | 11 | #2,394 | 5.8 |
| 1950 | 13 | #2,126 | 7.3 |
| 1949 | 5 | #3,778 | 2.8 |
| 1943 | 8 | #2,767 | 5.6 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1942 | 8 | #2,747 | 5.8 |
| 1941 | 10 | #2,370 | 8.1 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,352 | 8.6 |
| 1939 | 12 | #2,079 | 10.8 |
| 1938 | 14 | #1,915 | 12.6 |
| 1937 | 12 | #2,106 | 11.3 |
| 1936 | 14 | #1,888 | 13.5 |
| 1935 | 20 | #1,548 | 19.2 |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,154 | 11.6 |
| 1932 | 9 | #2,674 | 8.6 |
| 1931 | 17 | #1,784 | 16.4 |
| 1930 | 26 | #1,435 | 23.7 |
| 1929 | 25 | #1,449 | 23.2 |
| 1928 | 22 | #1,616 | 19.9 |
| 1927 | 28 | #1,414 | 24.8 |
| 1926 | 28 | #1,382 | 25.2 |
| 1925 | 23 | #1,595 | 20.6 |
| 1924 | 27 | #1,462 | 23.8 |
| 1923 | 30 | #1,331 | 27.4 |
| 1922 | 25 | #1,511 | 23.0 |
| 1921 | 22 | #1,658 | 20.0 |
| 1920 | 19 | #1,834 | 17.9 |
| 1919 | 31 | #1,272 | 31.6 |
| 1918 | 25 | #1,453 | 24.7 |
| 1917 | 23 | #1,488 | 24.9 |
| 1916 | 29 | #1,245 | 32.6 |
| 1915 | 13 | #2,089 | 15.3 |
| 1914 | 19 | #1,397 | 29.0 |
| 1913 | 14 | #1,456 | 27.3 |
| 1912 | 16 | #1,188 | 37.2 |
| 1911 | 7 | #1,412 | 31.0 |
| 1910 | 8 | #1,220 | 41.2 |
| 1909 | 5 | #1,496 | 30.5 |
| 1908 | 5 | #1,419 | 32.4 |
| 1907 | 5 | #1,379 | 34.1 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,142 | 45.1 |
| 1905 | 5 | #1,267 | 37.8 |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,032 | 48.9 |
| 1901 | 6 | #971 | 56.4 |
| 1883 | 5 | #922 | 47.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Clide a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 755 Americans recorded as Clide, 5% are girls and 95% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Clide: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Clide, and how old are they?
An estimated 74 Americans named Clide and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 229 people named Clide (35 women and girls, 194 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 121 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 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).
How common is the spelling Clide?
Clide is a less common spelling of Clyde: SSA has recorded 755 Clide and 148,926 Clyde since 1880.
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 149,978 babies since 1880, Clide is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 369 babies recorded by SSA was a Clide (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Clide
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 Clide and names like it
- Compare Clide and ClydeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sClide peaked in 1918.
- Mississippi’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Clide since 1910.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Clide.
- Names starting with CMost given first.