Clyda
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Clyda has been given to 758 babies in the U.S. since 1880. 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 1924, with 23 recorded.
Babies named Clyda, 1960
1 in 692,000
Clyda 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Clyda?
Clyda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1960, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1960
- 1 in 692,000
- 6 of 4,153,934 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 337,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1960
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 479,882 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Clyda sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1960 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 479,882 children born in 1960 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Clyda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Clydas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Clyda was born before 1927 — so the typical Clyda is around 98 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 21.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 34.2%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 55
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 21.9% of all recorded uses (166).
Is Clyda 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 1924 (23)
- Years since peak
- 101
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.9% average annual change
Spellings of Clyda
Clyda is not the most common spelling — Clara is, with 39.5% against Clyda's 0.10%.
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 Clyda is used
Across 1910–2025, Clyda was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 931,388 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1North Carolina1 in —
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. Clyda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Clyda around the world
Where Clyda 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 Australia1950–1950#436in 1950
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Clyda by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Clyda
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Clyda
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.