# Cleveland (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/cleveland/  
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 | 22,032 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 21,945 / 87 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 3, 1996 to 2025 |

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1922 | 5 | 5,158 |
| 1923 | 5 | 5,096 |
| 1926 | 5 | 4,976 |
| 1927 | 5 | 4,943 |
| 1934 | 6 | 3,890 |
| 1935 | 7 | 3,468 |
| 1939 | 7 | 3,492 |
| 1941 | 7 | 3,631 |
| 1947 | 8 | 4,049 |
| 1952 | 5 | 5,701 |
| 1959 | 5 | 6,417 |
| 1963 | 6 | 6,001 |
| 1964 | 6 | 6,126 |
| 1966 | 5 | 6,747 |
| 1978 | 5 | 10,047 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 43 | 2,761 |
| 2012 | 32 | 3,385 |
| 2013 | 22 | 4,352 |
| 2014 | 26 | 3,920 |
| 2015 | 25 | 4,100 |
| 2016 | 23 | 4,352 |
| 2017 | 28 | 3,792 |
| 2018 | 23 | 4,387 |
| 2019 | 21 | 4,668 |
| 2020 | 20 | 4,731 |
| 2021 | 21 | 4,658 |
| 2022 | 12 | 6,904 |
| 2023 | 11 | 7,373 |
| 2024 | 13 | 6,530 |
| 2025 | 11 | 7,286 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 3 | 4,747 |

## People named Cleveland

- Cleveland Amory, American writer (1917–1998)
- Cleveland Eaton, American musician
- Arthur Cleveland Bent, American ornithologist and natural history writer (1866-1954)
- Cleveland Moffett, American journalist and writer
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey, American politician (1886-1965)
- Bob Johnson, American actor and voice actor (1920-1993)

## 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.