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Cleophus

Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Cleophus has been given to 2,042 babies in the U.S. since 1904. 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 1947, with 46 recorded.

Babies named Cleophus, 2007

1 in 571,000

Cleophus over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cleophus: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Cleophus means

Cleophus is a given name.

The naming story behind Cleophus

Wikidata records Cleophus as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q96944224, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,023 boys were recorded with the name Cleophus between 1904 and 2007. Its highest annual count was 46 in 1947; its best national rank was #1,041 in 1945.

In the United States, 19 girls were recorded with the name Cleophus between 1917 and 1926. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1926; its best national rank was #3,951 in 1926.

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 Cleophus?

Cleophus had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2007, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2007
1 in 571,000
7 of 3,997,748 births
Among boys only
1 in 296,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2007
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
395,862 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Cleophus 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 2007 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 395,862 children born in 2007 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cleophus. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cleophuss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cleophus was born before 1949 — so the typical Cleophus is around 76 today.

Median birth year
1949
About 76 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
17.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
8.3%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
981
People you could plausibly meet
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1950s — 17.6% of all recorded uses (356).

Is Cleophus 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 1947 (46)
Years since peak
78
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,041
1945

Spellings of Cleophus

Cleophus is the most-used spelling, taking 50.7% of the 3,992 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Cleophus is used

Across 1910–2025, Cleophus was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 9,091 boys, against 1 in 82,425 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

011 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 9,091
  2. 2Arkansas1 in 25,000
  3. 3Mississippi1 in 100,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5Louisiana1 in —
  6. 6Michigan1 in —
  7. 7North Carolina1 in —
  8. 8South Carolina1 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. Cleophus has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Notable people named Cleophus

People whose public names include Cleophus, 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.

Cleophus 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
#1,041
1945
Peak year
1947
46 that year
First recorded
1904
Last recorded
2007
All-time count
2,023
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,951
1926
Peak year
1926
7 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
1926
All-time count
19
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Cleophus

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

ClementeCleophasClemensClearenceCleonClearnceClementClemmieCletusCleatusClemenceCletisCleothaClentonJosephusPinchusClearanceClevelandClemonAdolphusClementsDolphusCleranceCleotis

Names with a curve like Cleophus

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

WendelLenwoodHeywardAuthurWaymanHarrellWymanLintonTheodisEzellVernardWardell

Sibling names for Cleophus

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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