Cliffton
Cliffton was given to 6 boys in 2025, #10,928 among boys’ names; 1,872 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,540 Americans named Cliffton and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (82% of everyone recorded); the median is 45 years old and half are between 35 and 53.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cliffton by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cliffton?
#10,928 among boys’ names, 2025
Cliffton rose from #10,930 in 2015 to #10,928 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 3.1 to 3.5 per million.
67 babies in 1982, the peak
Cliffton peaked in 1982, when 67 boys were given it, #1,118 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #10,928 | 3.5 |
| 2024 | 5 | #12,691 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 6 | #11,050 | 3.4 |
| 2020 | 5 | #12,399 | 2.9 |
| 2019 | 5 | #12,520 | 2.8 |
| 2018 | 9 | #8,286 | 5.0 |
| 2017 | 5 | #12,652 | 2.7 |
| 2016 | 6 | #10,984 | 3.2 |
| 2015 | 6 | #10,930 | 3.1 |
| 2014 | 20 | #4,728 | 10.4 |
Every recorded year (99)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 7 | #9,841 | 3.7 |
| 2012 | 10 | #7,647 | 5.3 |
| 2011 | 5 | #12,630 | 2.6 |
| 2010 | 7 | #9,877 | 3.6 |
| 2009 | 9 | #8,418 | 4.5 |
| 2008 | 9 | #8,428 | 4.4 |
| 2007 | 12 | #6,693 | 5.8 |
| 2006 | 10 | #7,523 | 4.9 |
| 2005 | 10 | #7,203 | 5.0 |
| 2004 | 16 | #5,044 | 8.1 |
| 2003 | 13 | #5,606 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 7 | #8,613 | 3.6 |
| 2001 | 18 | #4,323 | 9.3 |
| 2000 | 17 | #4,424 | 8.7 |
| 1999 | 22 | #3,493 | 11.5 |
| 1998 | 16 | #4,231 | 8.4 |
| 1997 | 24 | #3,079 | 12.7 |
| 1996 | 17 | #3,843 | 9.0 |
| 1995 | 16 | #3,883 | 8.4 |
| 1994 | 17 | #3,771 | 8.8 |
| 1993 | 19 | #3,382 | 9.7 |
| 1992 | 23 | #2,919 | 11.5 |
| 1991 | 18 | #3,341 | 8.9 |
| 1990 | 27 | #2,496 | 13.1 |
| 1989 | 40 | #1,856 | 20.0 |
| 1988 | 37 | #1,818 | 19.3 |
| 1987 | 33 | #1,896 | 17.7 |
| 1986 | 41 | #1,596 | 22.3 |
| 1985 | 49 | #1,392 | 26.5 |
| 1984 | 44 | #1,446 | 24.4 |
| 1983 | 39 | #1,540 | 21.8 |
| 1982 | 67 | #1,118 | 36.9 |
| 1981 | 58 | #1,200 | 32.4 |
| 1980 | 60 | #1,180 | 33.6 |
| 1979 | 58 | #1,193 | 33.7 |
| 1978 | 56 | #1,188 | 34.1 |
| 1977 | 62 | #1,104 | 37.7 |
| 1976 | 44 | #1,335 | 28.0 |
| 1975 | 48 | #1,231 | 30.7 |
| 1974 | 46 | #1,231 | 29.3 |
| 1973 | 24 | #1,826 | 15.4 |
| 1972 | 24 | #1,829 | 14.8 |
| 1971 | 28 | #1,675 | 15.8 |
| 1970 | 22 | #1,896 | 11.8 |
| 1969 | 25 | #1,647 | 14.0 |
| 1968 | 17 | #1,970 | 9.8 |
| 1967 | 19 | #1,820 | 10.9 |
| 1966 | 13 | #2,236 | 7.3 |
| 1965 | 18 | #1,868 | 9.7 |
| 1964 | 29 | #1,463 | 14.6 |
| 1963 | 23 | #1,664 | 11.3 |
| 1962 | 24 | #1,628 | 11.6 |
| 1961 | 20 | #1,830 | 9.4 |
| 1960 | 12 | #2,443 | 5.6 |
| 1959 | 19 | #1,873 | 8.9 |
| 1958 | 19 | #1,852 | 9.0 |
| 1957 | 23 | #1,680 | 10.7 |
| 1956 | 35 | #1,301 | 16.5 |
| 1955 | 15 | #2,064 | 7.3 |
| 1954 | 12 | #2,335 | 5.9 |
| 1953 | 12 | #2,302 | 6.1 |
| 1952 | 18 | #1,815 | 9.3 |
| 1951 | 13 | #2,154 | 6.9 |
| 1950 | 15 | #1,952 | 8.4 |
| 1949 | 12 | #2,247 | 6.8 |
| 1948 | 10 | #2,473 | 5.7 |
| 1947 | 7 | #3,131 | 3.8 |
| 1946 | 17 | #1,774 | 10.5 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,001 | 4.9 |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,229 | 9.0 |
| 1940 | 9 | #2,511 | 7.8 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,173 | 5.4 |
| 1936 | 5 | #3,641 | 4.8 |
| 1935 | 9 | #2,563 | 8.6 |
| 1932 | 6 | #3,444 | 5.7 |
| 1931 | 5 | #3,866 | 4.8 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,417 | 6.3 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,210 | 7.1 |
| 1925 | 5 | #4,318 | 4.5 |
| 1924 | 6 | #3,962 | 5.3 |
| 1923 | 6 | #3,899 | 5.5 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,302 | 7.4 |
| 1921 | 6 | #3,948 | 5.4 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,163 | 8.2 |
| 1917 | 6 | #3,628 | 6.5 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,238 | 7.9 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,147 | 8.2 |
| 1914 | 6 | #2,982 | 9.2 |
| 1912 | 5 | #2,620 | 11.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Cliffton a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cliffton has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 99 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cliffton: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cliffton, and how old are they?
1,540 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 82% of the 1,872 Americans ever recorded as Cliffton. The median Cliffton alive today is 45 years old; half are between 35 and 53.
The 2020 Census counted 1,231 people named Cliffton (3 women and girls, 1,228 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,587 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 13 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 229 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 506 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 515 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 201 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 79 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Cliffton born?
The states with the most babies named Cliffton are Texas, California and Ohio, with 79% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 124 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| California | 18 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Ohio | 15 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Florida | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Alabama | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Michigan | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| North Carolina | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| New York | 5 | not ranked | 0.0× |
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 Cliffton with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Cliffton?
Cliffton is a less common spelling of Clifton: SSA has recorded 1,872 Cliffton and 70,685 Clifton since 1880.
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 72,557 babies since 1880, Cliffton is the second most given (2.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 88 babies (6.8%), again the second most given.
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 Cliffton
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 Cliffton and names like it
- Compare Cliffton and CliftonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sCliffton peaked in 1982.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cliffton since 1910.
- The top names of 1982The year the most babies were named Cliffton.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Cliffton alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.