Clifford Boy Name

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The name Clifford is of English origin, and means place to ford a river near a cliff. The table below indicates the number of times the name Clifford has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Clifford**
Use of the Name Clifford for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
184,963	60,044	14,889	2,638	1,045	388	213

The table below indicates the number of times the name Clifford has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Clifford**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	107	127	764	6
1881	112	110	638	8
1882	94	155	936	5
1883	100	138	589	11
1884	102	150	871	7
1885	104	139
1886	95	172	845	8
1887	91	165	876	8
1888	92	194
1889	87	202	728	13
1890	83	207	796	12
1891	81	196	904	10
1892	81	239	765	15
1893	71	269	667	19
1894	65	307
1895	72	272	747	18
1896	66	311	965	12
1897	68	285
1898	67	317
1899	62	297
1900	66	409	980	15
1901	69	283	965	12
1902	71	326	738	22
1903	61	348
1904	66	361	942	15
1905	61	420
1906	63	413	924	16
1907	65	444
1908	58	511
1909	56	536	685	34
1910	66	551	974	20
1911	62	693	899	23
1912	62	1,344
1913	67	1,520
1914	61	1,960
1915	61	2,742
1916	61	2,770	916	55
1917	59	2,971	905	58
1918	60	3,305
1919	60	3,032
1920	59	3,286	989	55
1921	62	3,264
1922	63	3,156
1923	65	3,110
1924	64	3,250
1925	59	3,423
1926	62	3,188
1927	65	3,016
1928	69	2,854
1929	72	2,675
1930	73	2,691
1931	75	2,446
1932	86	2,278
1933	86	2,160
1934	85	2,315
1935	89	2,252
1936	90	2,136
1937	90	2,228
1938	89	2,270
1939	88	2,291
1940	94	2,182
1941	94	2,365
1942	95	2,529
1943	94	2,648
1944	98	2,397
1945	99	2,370
1946	100	2,608
1947	101	2,969
1948	106	2,787
1949	103	2,897
1950	100	2,947
1951	101	3,141
1952	99	3,317
1953	102	3,149
1954	112	3,133
1955	118	2,996
1956	122	2,908
1957	130	2,887
1958	129	2,812
1959	139	2,531
1960	141	2,465
1961	149	2,337
1962	150	2,181
1963	150	2,198
1964	161	2,022
1965	163	1,820
1966	169	1,606
1967	174	1,518
1968	167	1,606
1969	184	1,510
1970	176	1,582
1971	185	1,380
1972	186	1,263
1973	193	1,175
1974	193	1,150
1975	199	1,124
1976	205	1,065
1977	224	973
1978	216	1,000
1979	219	1,046
1980	202	1,214
1981	210	1,179
1982	212	1,140
1983	229	973
1984	225	996
1985	253	892
1986	257	865
1987	286	754
1988	298	764
1989	307	777
1990	346	698
1991	386	586
1992	414	538
1993	455	474
1994	507	401
1995	535	356
1996	539	356
1997	573	323
1998	655	266
1999	620	292
2000	754	222
2001	728	238
2002	841	197
2003	931	175
2004	825	213
Totals:		184,963		477

During the last 125 years, parents have used Clifford as a boy's name about 99% of the time and less frequently (about 0% of the time) as a girl's name.

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