Girls' name · since 1918
Clodie
Clodie has 16 recorded births since 1918 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1926 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #48,508 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 16
- born since 1918
- 1920s
- peak decade
Clodie is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 16 have been recorded since 1918.
Clodie has 16 recorded births among girls since 1918, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1920s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1918 to 1926.
- #48,508 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 16 born since 1918
- 1920s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Clodie ranks #48,508 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 16 born since 1918, peaking in the 1920s.
- #48,508 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 16
- born since 1918
- 1920s
- peak decade
Clodie's 16 recorded births place it above 31.73% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Clodie's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Clodie splits its recorded history at 1920: 69% of all births land in the more recent half, 31% in the earlier half, a lean toward present-day use rather than a passing spike. The single quietest year was 1918 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1926 peak of 6 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Clodie popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1918–1926
- Peak year (1926)
- 6
- Annual births at peak, across 9 years of records
Clodie by decade
1920s is the heaviest window (11 births, 69% of the file).
1920s was Clodie's strongest decade.
11 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 69% of all-time use.
Clodie births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1910s
1910s
5 births
- 1920s
1920s
11 births
What this shows Peak: 1920s at 11 births (69% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Clodie: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1926)
Similar record span (~8 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1918–1926 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Clodie draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.