Clide — boys' name

What the Data Says About Clide

The Social Security Administration has registered 718 babies named Clide between 1883 and 1960, spanning 78 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Clide currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1960. The name reached its historical peak in 1919, when 31 babies received it in a single year. Clide is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 37 additional births since 1915.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Clide performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 249 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Clide shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Mississippi, which accounts for 17 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by North Carolina and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Clide in 8 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Clide 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 718 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.