Cliffie — girls' name
343 babies named Cliffie in U.S. Social Security records since 1885, with the highest year being 1916. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
29% of everyone ever named Cliffie was born in this single decade.
15 babies were named Cliffie in 1916 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Cliffie
The Social Security Administration has registered 343 babies named Cliffie between 1885 and 1954, spanning 70 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Cliffie currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1954. The name reached its historical peak in 1916, when 15 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Cliffie performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 98 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Cliffie shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Alabama, which accounts for 7 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Tennessee. In total, SSA state-level files list Cliffie in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Cliffie 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 343 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.
Cliffie at a glance
Last recorded 1954Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Cliffie popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1954–1885
- Peak year (1916)
- 15
- Annual births at peak — across 70 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1954.
343 total births across 70 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1916 with 15 births in a single year.
Cliffie by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1910s
- 98 births that decade — 29% of Cliffie's all-time total
Cliffie decade highlights
- Peak decade 98 births
- Runner-up 77 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1910s was Cliffie's strongest decade
98 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 29% of all-time use.
Cliffie by state
Where Cliffie concentrates geographically — total births since 1885
Top 5 states
- Alabama 2.0% of nationwide
- Tennessee 1.5% of nationwide
Recorded in 2 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Alabama accounts for 2.0% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1885–1954 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.