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Claud

Boys' name

Lame, through Claude

Claud has been given to 10,940 babies in the U.S. since 1880. 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 1919, with 344 recorded.

Babies named Claud, 2010

1 in 739,000

Claud over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Claud: meaning, origin, and history

Lame, through Claude

Latin

What Claud means

Claud belongs to the name family reached through Claud → Claude. Its meaning is “lame”.

Origin, language, and formation

Claud is used in English. Its origins include Latin.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Claude.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10,893 boys were recorded with the name Claud between 1880 and 2010. Its highest annual count was 344 in 1919; its best national rank was #139 in 1885.

In the United States, 47 girls were recorded with the name Claud between 1918 and 1943. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1930; its best national rank was #3,099 in 1930.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Claud?

Claud had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2010, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2010
1 in 739,000
5 of 3,695,928 births
Among boys only
1 in 384,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2010
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
512,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Claud sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2010 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 512,366 children born in 2010 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Claud. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Clauds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Claud was born before 1922 — so the typical Claud is around 103 today.

Median birth year
1922
About 103 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
25.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
0.62%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,102
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 25.0% of all recorded uses (2,726).

Is Claud 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 1919 (344)
Years since peak
106
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#139
1885

Spellings of Claud

Claud is not the most common spelling — Chad is, with 51.1% against Claud's 2.3%.

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 Claud is used

Across 1910–2025, Claud was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in 3,125 boys, against 1 in 17,770 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

032 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arkansas1 in 3,125
  2. 2Oklahoma1 in 3,704
  3. 3Alabama1 in 5,882
  4. 4Mississippi1 in 7,143
  5. 5Georgia1 in 7,692
  6. 6Kentucky1 in 8,333
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 9,091
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 10,000

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. Claud has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Claud around the world

Where Claud ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    1945–1945
    #261
    in 1945

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Claud

People whose public names include Claud, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Claud by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#139
1885
Peak year
1919
344 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2010
All-time count
10,893
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#3,099
1930
Peak year
1930
9 that year
First recorded
1918
Last recorded
1943
All-time count
47
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Claud

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Claud

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Claud, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

AlvaEarleOraElmoAdolphNewtonOrvalEllsworthAlphonseGustaveColumbusFerdinand

Sibling names for Claud

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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