Cliffton
#10,928 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Cliffton has been given to 1,872 babies in the U.S. since 1912. In 2025 it ranked #10,928 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1982, with 67 recorded.
Babies named Cliffton, 2025
1 in 553,000
Cliffton 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Cliffton?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 285,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #10,928
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Cliffton sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cliffton. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Clifftons were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Cliffton was born before 1979 — so the typical Cliffton is around 46 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 25.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 11.0%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,683
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 25.0% of all recorded uses (468).
Is Cliffton 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
- +1,763
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,472
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +2
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.00×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 9.0%
- Peak was 1982 (67)
- Years since peak
- 43
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 38.1% average annual change
Spellings of Cliffton
Cliffton is not the most common spelling — Clinton is, with 57.5% against Cliffton's 1.1%.
Where Cliffton is used
Across 1910–2025, Cliffton was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 410,472 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Texas1 in 100,000
- 2Alabama1 in —
- 3California1 in —
- 4Florida1 in —
- 5Illinois1 in —
- 6Michigan1 in —
- 7North Carolina1 in —
- 8New York1 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. Cliffton has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Cliffton around the world
Where Cliffton 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 Australia1984–1984#455in 1984
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Cliffton by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Cliffton
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Cliffton
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.