# Cleve (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/cleve/  
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 | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 4,529 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 4,506 / 23 (1% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## 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 | 4,383 |
| 1925 | 6 | 4,532 |
| 1928 | 6 | 4,281 |
| 1930 | 5 | 4,676 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 10 | 5,415 |
| 1994 | 11 | 5,159 |
| 1995 | 8 | 6,491 |
| 1996 | 8 | 6,606 |
| 1997 | 5 | 9,522 |
| 1999 | 7 | 8,008 |
| 2000 | 7 | 8,343 |
| 2003 | 5 | 11,194 |
| 2004 | 5 | 11,679 |
| 2005 | 5 | 11,761 |
| 2006 | 5 | 12,379 |
| 2007 | 8 | 9,059 |
| 2009 | 9 | 8,422 |
| 2010 | 5 | 12,596 |
| 2013 | 5 | 12,492 |

## People named Cleve

- Cleve Moler, American mathematician specializing in numerical analysis (1939 - 2026)
- Cleve Livingston, American rower
- Cleve Jones, American LGBT rights and AIDS activist

## 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.