Masculine dossier · first seen 1882

Cleve

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Cleve
Creator: Social Security Administration

Extinct Near statistical disappearance

Peak era

1951

Peak rank proxy

Current vitality

Dormant

Generation

Boomer

1882Peak 19512024

Peak year

1951

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

4,506

Cleve has moved from ordinary use into the archive. Its peak belongs most strongly to the Boomer naming world, and its absence today gives the name the strange clarity of a cultural fossil.

Your name peaked in 1951, when 83 boys were named Cleve.

No boys were recorded with this name in 2024 — at least not five of them (the SSA's reporting floor).

Down 100% from its peak.

All told, about 4,506 Americans have been named Cleve and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1882.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationBoomer

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryNear statistical disappearance

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