Clive — #2055 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Clive

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,279 babies named Clive between 1885 and 2024, spanning 140 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Clive currently holds the #2055 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2016, when 85 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Clive performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 690 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Clive shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 244 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Clive in 17 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Clive 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 3,279 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.