Clifton Boy Name

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The name Clifton is of English origin, and means town near a cliff. The table below indicates the number of times the name Clifton 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 Clifton**
Use of the Name Clifton for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
67,621	30,451	10,094	1,921	764	171	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Clifton has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Clifton last appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 2003, the last year shown on the table. 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 Clifton**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	273	38
1881	253	39
1882	232	51
1883	324	26
1884	270	40
1885	221	54
1886	262	42
1887	244	43
1888	219	64
1889	217	59
1890	219	57
1891	161	80
1892	214	68
1893	194	75
1894	166	93
1895	169	92
1896	168	95
1897	194	78
1898	186	83
1899	161	94
1900	190	108
1901	154	101
1902	156	112
1903	159	110
1904	164	115
1905	165	121
1906	174	104
1907	172	126
1908	162	142
1909	158	157
1910	168	177
1911	163	205
1912	147	405
1913	149	496
1914	150	616
1915	144	819
1916	156	772
1917	159	794
1918	152	939
1919	152	877
1920	156	916
1921	160	929
1922	169	881
1923	166	901
1924	172	846
1925	170	892
1926	165	886
1927	163	915
1928	183	779
1929	179	780
1930	181	758
1931	189	687
1932	182	739
1933	178	727
1934	189	671
1935	196	651
1936	195	631
1937	193	667
1938	197	650
1939	193	665
1940	202	639
1941	202	679
1942	199	792
1943	188	850
1944	197	757
1945	200	723
1946	213	799
1947	204	961
1948	205	944
1949	204	979
1950	200	1,023
1951	209	949
1952	216	942
1953	218	959
1954	215	1,036
1955	227	973
1956	232	1,004
1957	235	1,048
1958	250	999
1959	262	922
1960	271	872
1961	269	870
1962	262	852
1963	273	790
1964	266	833
1965	287	683
1966	277	694
1967	279	664
1968	281	688
1969	292	666
1970	300	672
1971	303	642
1972	297	624
1973	314	557
1974	257	751
1975	186	1,212
1976	232	871
1977	247	826
1978	242	862
1979	266	782
1980	269	803
1981	272	787
1982	285	716
1983	317	611
1984	304	644
1985	317	643
1986	326	609
1987	350	552
1988	382	518
1989	413	506
1990	473	439
1991	490	412
1992	538	355
1993	585	311
1994	636	267
1995	659	250
1996	695	231
1997	714	221
1998	696	240
1999	746	215
2000	740	230
2001	818	200
2002	967	163
2003	945	171
Totals:		67,621		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Clifton as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Clifton appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 124 times during the last 125 years.

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