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Cleophas

Boys' name

Form of Clopas

Cleophas has been given to 983 babies in the U.S. since 1906. 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 1923, with 31 recorded.

Babies named Cleophas, 1987

1 in 721,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cleophas: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Clopas

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Cleophas means

Cleophas is a form of Clopas.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Cleophas is used in Biblical and Biblical Latin.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈkli.ə.fəs/ for Cleophas.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Clopas.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 960 boys were recorded with the name Cleophas between 1906 and 1987. Its highest annual count was 31 in 1923; its best national rank was #1,224 in 1907.

In the United States, 23 girls were recorded with the name Cleophas between 1904 and 1936. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1924; its best national rank was #1,941 in 1904.

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.

How common is Cleophas?

Cleophas had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1987, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1987
1 in 721,000
5 of 3,605,072 births
Among boys only
1 in 373,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1987
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
499,770 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Cleophas 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 1987 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 499,770 children born in 1987 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cleophas. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cleophass were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cleophas was born before 1936 — so the typical Cleophas is around 89 today.

Median birth year
1936
About 89 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
22.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
13.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
285
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1920s — 22.4% of all recorded uses (215).

Is Cleophas 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 1923 (31)
Years since peak
102
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,224
1907

Spellings of Cleophas

Cleophas is not the most common spelling — Cleophus is, with 43.4% against Cleophas's 20.6%.

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 Cleophas is used

Across 1910–2025, Cleophas was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 438,075 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 100,000
  2. 2Arkansas1 in —
  3. 3Mississippi1 in —
  4. 4North Carolina1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 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. Cleophas has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Cleophas around the world

Where Cleophas 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.

  • France
    1900–2014
    #6,112
    in 2014

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Cleophas 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
—
Best rank ever
#1,224
1907
Peak year
1923
31 that year
First recorded
1906
Last recorded
1987
All-time count
960
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,941
1904
Peak year
1924
7 that year
First recorded
1904
Last recorded
1936
All-time count
23
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Cleophas

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

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Sibling names for Cleophas

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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