# Claud (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/claud/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Latin |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 10,940 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 10,893 / 47 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

Variant of Claude.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1918 | 6 | 4,377 |
| 1919 | 6 | 4,346 |
| 1920 | 5 | 5,111 |
| 1923 | 6 | 4,475 |
| 1925 | 5 | 5,103 |
| 1930 | 9 | 3,101 |
| 1942 | 5 | 4,737 |
| 1943 | 5 | 4,800 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 13 | 3,201 |
| 1980 | 11 | 3,658 |
| 1981 | 12 | 3,453 |
| 1982 | 13 | 3,317 |
| 1984 | 5 | 6,480 |
| 1985 | 5 | 6,703 |
| 1986 | 7 | 5,432 |
| 1988 | 6 | 6,559 |
| 1989 | 9 | 5,241 |
| 1990 | 7 | 6,531 |
| 1991 | 6 | 7,429 |
| 1992 | 9 | 5,723 |
| 1993 | 12 | 4,755 |
| 1994 | 7 | 7,083 |
| 2010 | 5 | 12,594 |

## People named Claud

- Claud Allister, British actor (1888-1970)
- Claud Cockburn, British journalist (1904-1981)
- Claud Buchanan Ticehurst, British ornithologist & surgeon (1881-1941)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.