Claudy
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Claudy has been given to 329 babies in the U.S. since 1912. 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 14 recorded.
Babies named Claudy, 1996
1 in 729,000
Claudy 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Claudy?
Claudy 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 boys only
- 1 in 379,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1996
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 505,451 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Claudy sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 505,451 children born in 1996 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Claudy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Claudys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Claudy was born before 1933 — so the typical Claudy is around 92 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1930s
- 30.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 6.3%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 45
- People you could plausibly meet
1930s — 30.2% of all recorded uses (95).
Is Claudy 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1918 (14)
- Years since peak
- 107
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.0% average annual change
Spellings of Claudy
Claudy is not the most common spelling — Claude is, with 59.0% against Claudy's 0.20%.
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 Claudy is used
Across 1910–2025, Claudy was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,544,586 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Mississippi1 in —
- 2Texas1 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. Claudy has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Claudy around the world
Where Claudy 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.
- France1921–2021#6,814in 2021
- South Australia1966–1966#536in 1966
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Claudy by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Claudy
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Claudy
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.