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Clifford

Pronounced /ˈklɪfəɹd/

Rank in 2024
#1,346
Born in 2024
142
Peak year
1925 · #59
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:0 in 2024

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 142 boys were named Clifford, about 1 in every 12,080.
  • It peaked in 1925 with 3,424 babies, ranked #59.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 188,109 boys have been named Clifford since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Clifford per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 3.0
    Greatest
  2. 2.1
    Silent
  3. 1.4
    Boomers
  4. 0.8
    Gen X
  5. 0.4
    Millennials
  6. 0.1
    Gen Z
  7. <0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 50,243 babies, 3.01 per 1,000. Silent: 43,157 babies, 2.09 per 1,000. Boomers: 52,362 babies, 1.39 per 1,000. Gen X: 21,037 babies, 0.77 per 1,000. Millennials: 11,754 babies, 0.39 per 1,000. Gen Z: 3,194 babies, 0.10 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,700 babies, 0.08 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From Old English clif (“cliff”) + ford (“ford”), a dweller at the ford by the steep bank.

  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
/ˈklɪfəɹd/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Clifford, CC BY-SA 4.0.