Claiborne
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Claiborne has been given to 1,237 babies in the U.S. since 1889. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1918, with 27 recorded.
Babies named Claiborne, 2024
1 in 669,000
Claiborne over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Claiborne?
Claiborne had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 669,000
- 5 of 3,342,801 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 345,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 463,412 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Claiborne sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Claiborne. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Claibornes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Claiborne was born before 1947 — so the typical Claiborne is around 78 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 16.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 6.5%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 562
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 16.0% of all recorded uses (194).
Is Claiborne rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1918 (27)
- Years since peak
- 107
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 30.3% average annual change
Spellings of Claiborne
Claiborne is the most-used spelling, taking 62.2% of the 1,946 babies given a near-identical spelling.
- Claiborne62.2%1,210
- Clayborn37.8%736
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Claiborne is used
Across 1910–2025, Claiborne was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 65,906 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Louisiana1 in 33,333
- 2Virginia1 in 50,000
- 3North Carolina1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Claiborne has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Claiborne by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Claiborne
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Claiborne
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.