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Clover

#517 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Clover has been given to 5,738 babies in the U.S. since 1897. In 2025 it ranked #517 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 578 recorded.

Babies named Clover, 2025

1 in 5,740

Clover over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Clover: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Clover means

Clover is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Clover is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,640 girls were recorded with the name Clover between 1897 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 578 in 2025; its best national rank was #517 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,067 in 2020 to #517 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,319 in 2015 to #517 in 2025.

In the United States, 98 boys were recorded with the name Clover between 1922 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 16 in 2024; its best national rank was #3,469 in 1925.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Clover?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 5,740
578 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 2,780
0.04% of girls
Rank, 2025
#517
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
3,977 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Clover sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 1002%
School of 5008%

Put another way: gather 3,977 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Clover. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Clovers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Clover was born before 2018 — so the typical Clover is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
43.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
81.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,156
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Choose a decade

2020s — 43.1% of all recorded uses (2,432).

Is Clover 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
+100
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+550
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+802
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.21×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (578)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#517
2025

Spellings of Clover

Clover is the most-used spelling, taking 24.3% of the 23,199 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 Clover is used

Across 2016–2025, Clover was most concentrated in Oregon — about 1 in 1,429 girls, against 1 in 4,925 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 12,500).

870 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oregon1 in 1,429
  2. 2Washington1 in 2,564
  3. 3Colorado1 in 2,941
  4. 4Idaho1 in 2,941
  5. 5Oklahoma1 in 3,125
  6. 6Tennessee1 in 3,125
  7. 7Michigan1 in 3,333
  8. 8Louisiana1 in 3,448

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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.

Geographically, Clover is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 41% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Clover around the world

Where Clover 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #596
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2019–2025
    #539
    in 2025
  • France
    2010–2023
    #6,150
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2006–2024
    #1,023
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1989–2009
    #535
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Clover

People whose public names include Clover, 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.

Clover by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#517
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 550
Best rank ever
#517
2025
Peak year
2025
578 that year
First recorded
1897
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,640
Count in 2025
578

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,903
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#3,469
1925
Peak year
2024
16 that year
First recorded
1922
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
98
Count in 2025
15

Names similar to Clover

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

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Names with a curve like Clover

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

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Sibling names for Clover

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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