Clell
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Clell has been given to 1,221 babies in the U.S. since 1884. 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 1924, with 49 recorded.
Babies named Clell, 1988
1 in 616,000
Clell 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Clell?
Clell had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1988, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1988
- 1 in 616,000
- 6 of 3,694,212 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 319,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1988
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 426,773 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Clell sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1988 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 426,773 children born in 1988 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Clell. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Clells were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Clell was born before 1928 — so the typical Clell is around 97 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 26.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 5.8%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 215
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 26.8% of all recorded uses (327).
Is Clell 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 1924 (49)
- Years since peak
- 101
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 25.7% average annual change
Spellings of Clell
Clell is not the most common spelling — Odell is, with 25.0% against Clell's 2.0%.
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 Clell is used
Across 1910–2025, Clell was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 236,718 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 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. Clell has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Clell by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Clell
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Clell
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.