Clois — boys' name

What the Data Says About Clois

The Social Security Administration has registered 725 babies named Clois between 1913 and 1975, spanning 63 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Clois currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1975. The name reached its historical peak in 1930, when 35 babies received it in a single year. Clois is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 271 additional births since 1913.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Clois performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 204 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Clois shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 124 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Arkansas and Mississippi. In total, SSA state-level files list Clois in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Clois 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 725 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.