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Claudie

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Variant of Claude

Claudie has been given to 6,717 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 1918, with 113 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 56% girls, 44% boys all-time.

Babies named Claudie, 1996

1 in 729,000

Claudie over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Claudie over time

In 1996, Claudie went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

18801996

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Claudie: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Claude

Latin

What Claudie means

Claudie is a variant of Claude.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Claudie is used in French.

Another recorded pronunciation is /klo.di/ for Claudie.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Claudie → Claude. The family’s meaning is “lame”, recorded in English with the source elements claudus.

Origin, language, and formation

Claudie is used in French. Its origins include Latin.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Claude and Claudia.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Claudie is pronounced /klo.di/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,739 girls were recorded with the name Claudie between 1880 and 1996. Its highest annual count was 113 in 1918; its best national rank was #457 in 1900.

In the United States, 2,978 boys were recorded with the name Claudie between 1882 and 1992. Its highest annual count was 93 in 1920; its best national rank was #511 in 1901.

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 Claudie?

Claudie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1996, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1996
1 in 729,000
5 of 3,646,048 births
Among girls only
1 in 350,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1996
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
505,451 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Claudie sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1996 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 505,451 children born in 1996 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Claudie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Claudies were born

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

Median birth year
1922
About 103 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
26.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
0.94%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
297
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1920s — 26.1% of all recorded uses (977).

Is Claudie 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 (113)
Years since peak
107
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#457
1900

Spellings of Claudie

Claudie is not the most common spelling — Laurie is, with 49.4% against Claudie's 1.1%.

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 Claudie is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Claudie was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 7,692 girls, against 1 in 27,120 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

013 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 7,692
  2. 2Mississippi1 in 7,692
  3. 3Georgia1 in 10,000
  4. 4Arkansas1 in 20,000
  5. 5Texas1 in 25,000
  6. 6Tennessee1 in 50,000
  7. 7Louisiana1 in 100,000
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Claudie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Claudie is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Claudie was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 14,286 boys, against 1 in 33,983 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 14,286
  2. 2Arkansas1 in 14,286
  3. 3Mississippi1 in 14,286
  4. 4Oklahoma1 in 20,000
  5. 5North Carolina1 in 33,333
  6. 6Tennessee1 in 33,333
  7. 7Texas1 in 33,333
  8. 8Georgia1 in 50,000

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

Claudie around the world

Where Claudie 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.

  • England & Wales
    2006–2025
    #3,705
    in 2025
  • France
    1902–2025
    #2,910
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2023
    #2,672
    in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Claudie

People whose public names include Claudie, 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.

Claudie in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Claudie. Linked forms have their own page here.

ClaudeClediaClaudiaClaudineClaudette

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Claudie by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#457
1900
Peak year
1918
113 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
1996
All-time count
3,739
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#511
1901
Peak year
1920
93 that year
First recorded
1882
Last recorded
1992
All-time count
2,978
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Claudie

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

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Names with a curve like Claudie

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

AlthaVernieAlmedaEthelynBulahArvillaVergieMadieIdellEstellJettieRosamond

Sibling names for Claudie

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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