Clydie
Clydie was last recorded in 1961, when 5 babies were given it; 875 Americans have been recorded with it between 1892 and 1961 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Clydie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Clydie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #6,726, in 1961; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
35 babies in 1926, the peak
Clydie peaked in 1926, when 35 babies were given it (30 girls, #1,485 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 5 | #6,726 | 2.5 |
| 1960 | 6 | #5,814 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,503 | 2.9 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,403 | 3.0 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,441 | 4.1 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,246 | 3.1 |
| 1953 | 9 | #3,995 | 4.8 |
| 1952 | 14 | #2,934 | 7.5 |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,761 | 5.0 |
| 1950 | 11 | #3,258 | 6.4 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1949 | 17 | #2,428 | 9.9 |
| 1948 | 15 | #2,609 | 8.8 |
| 1947 | 19 | #2,292 | 10.7 |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,458 | 5.7 |
| 1944 | 17 | #2,111 | 12.8 |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,578 | 9.3 |
| 1942 | 13 | #2,559 | 9.6 |
| 1941 | 13 | #2,422 | 10.8 |
| 1940 | 11 | #2,596 | 9.6 |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,763 | 9.1 |
| 1938 | 17 | #1,959 | 15.4 |
| 1937 | 13 | #2,342 | 12.2 |
| 1936 | 15 | #2,056 | 14.4 |
| 1935 | 18 | #1,859 | 17.2 |
| 1934 | 13 | #2,310 | 12.4 |
| 1933 | 16 | #1,980 | 15.9 |
| 1932 | 19 | #1,829 | 17.8 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,802 | 9.4 |
| 1930 | 24 | #1,619 | 21.3 |
| 1929 | 30 | #1,394 | 26.9 |
| 1928 | 17 | #2,109 | 14.7 |
| 1927 | 29 | #1,527 | 24.3 |
| 1926 | 30 | #1,485 | 25.3 |
| 1925 | 19 | #2,044 | 15.6 |
| 1924 | 18 | #2,155 | 14.4 |
| 1923 | 21 | #1,907 | 17.4 |
| 1922 | 34 | #1,375 | 28.3 |
| 1921 | 24 | #1,781 | 19.5 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,679 | 6.7 |
| 1919 | 25 | #1,607 | 22.1 |
| 1918 | 22 | #1,767 | 19.0 |
| 1917 | 20 | #1,788 | 18.5 |
| 1916 | 21 | #1,699 | 20.1 |
| 1915 | 20 | #1,690 | 20.3 |
| 1914 | 13 | #1,925 | 17.1 |
| 1913 | 20 | #1,278 | 32.0 |
| 1912 | 8 | #2,196 | 14.3 |
| 1911 | 14 | #1,255 | 33.5 |
| 1910 | 7 | #1,975 | 17.7 |
| 1909 | 6 | #2,012 | 17.3 |
| 1908 | 8 | #1,569 | 23.9 |
| 1907 | 15 | #996 | 47.1 |
| 1906 | 9 | #1,347 | 30.5 |
| 1905 | 10 | #1,250 | 34.3 |
| 1904 | 9 | #1,278 | 32.7 |
| 1903 | 7 | #1,468 | 26.7 |
| 1902 | 8 | #1,343 | 30.3 |
| 1900 | 8 | #1,459 | 26.7 |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,438 | 25.7 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,497 | 23.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Clydie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 875 Americans recorded as Clydie, 97% are girls and 3% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Clydie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Clydie, and how old are they?
An estimated 178 Americans named Clydie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (20% of everyone recorded); the median is 79 years old and half are between 74 and 85. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 241 people named Clydie (225 women and girls, 16 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 256 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
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 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,259 babies since 1880, Clydie is the most given (39% of them).
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 Clydie
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 Clydie and names like it
- Compare Clydie and ClydaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sClydie peaked in 1926.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Clydie since 1910.
- The top names of 1926The year the most babies were named Clydie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Clydie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.