Cliffard
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Cliffard has been given to 142 babies in the U.S. since 1917. 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 1931, with 10 recorded.
Babies named Cliffard, 1967
1 in 679,000
Cliffard 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Cliffard?
Cliffard had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1967, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1967
- 1 in 679,000
- 5 of 3,394,772 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 349,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1967
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 470,616 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Cliffard sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1967 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 470,616 children born in 1967 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cliffard. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Cliffards were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Cliffard was born before 1932 — so the typical Cliffard is around 93 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1930s
- 30.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 26.1%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 11
- People you could plausibly meet
1930s — 30.3% of all recorded uses (43).
Is Cliffard 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 1931 (10)
- Years since peak
- 94
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 47.1% average annual change
Spellings of Cliffard
Cliffard is not the most common spelling — Clifford is, with 99.9% against Cliffard's 0.08%.
- Clifford99.9%188,249
- Cliffard0.08%142
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.
Cliffard around the world
Where Cliffard 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.
- South Australia1961–1961#561in 1961
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Cliffard by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Cliffard
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Cliffard
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.