Cloud
Cloud was given to 39 boys in 2025, #3,094 among boys’ names; 776 Americans have been recorded with it since 1913 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cloud by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cloud?
#3,094 among boys’ names, 2025
Cloud rose from #3,242 in 2015 to #3,094 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 18.3 to 22.8 per million.
55 babies in 2020, the peak
Cloud peaked in 2020, when 55 babies were given it (50 boys, #2,555 among boys’ names). The 39 births of 2025 are 71% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 39 | #3,094 | 22.8 |
| 2024 | 44 | #2,881 | 25.5 |
| 2023 | 48 | #2,702 | 28.1 |
| 2022 | 45 | #2,834 | 25.8 |
| 2021 | 37 | #3,194 | 21.1 |
| 2020 | 50 | #2,555 | 29.0 |
| 2019 | 23 | #4,352 | 12.8 |
| 2018 | 29 | #3,719 | 16.0 |
| 2017 | 31 | #3,525 | 16.7 |
| 2016 | 31 | #3,540 | 16.3 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 35 | #3,242 | 18.3 |
| 2014 | 27 | #3,806 | 14.1 |
| 2013 | 18 | #5,009 | 9.5 |
| 2012 | 24 | #4,150 | 12.7 |
| 2011 | 25 | #4,006 | 13.2 |
| 2010 | 26 | #3,910 | 13.6 |
| 2009 | 26 | #3,935 | 13.1 |
| 2008 | 19 | #4,923 | 9.3 |
| 2007 | 21 | #4,521 | 10.1 |
| 2006 | 14 | #5,833 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 7 | #9,291 | 3.5 |
| 2004 | 6 | #10,188 | 3.0 |
| 2003 | 7 | #8,818 | 3.5 |
| 2001 | 6 | #9,462 | 3.1 |
| 2000 | 7 | #8,336 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,418 | 2.8 |
| 1945 | 7 | #2,791 | 5.2 |
| 1933 | 5 | #3,737 | 5.0 |
| 1931 | 6 | #3,456 | 5.8 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,102 | 4.6 |
| 1928 | 6 | #3,787 | 5.4 |
| 1927 | 10 | #2,732 | 8.9 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,318 | 4.5 |
| 1924 | 12 | #2,502 | 10.6 |
| 1922 | 7 | #3,588 | 6.4 |
| 1921 | 7 | #3,590 | 6.4 |
| 1920 | 5 | #4,424 | 4.7 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,295 | 4.9 |
| 1917 | 10 | #2,585 | 10.8 |
| 1915 | 5 | #3,935 | 5.9 |
| 1913 | 5 | #2,903 | 9.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Cloud a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 776 Americans recorded as Cloud, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 39 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Cloud: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cloud, and how old are they?
An estimated 674 Americans named Cloud and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (87% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 15. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 515 people named Cloud (65 women and girls, 450 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 411 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 3,826 babies since 1880, Cloud is the second most given (20% of them). In 2025 it was given to 39 of their 39 babies (100%), the most given that year.
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 Cloud
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 Cloud and names like it
- Compare Cloud and CloydBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sCloud peaked in 2020.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cloud since 1910.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Cloud.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Cloud alive today were born 2013-2025.
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