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Claudia vs Clauzell

American parents have registered 129,078 Claudias since 1880, against 12 Clauzells. Claudia is still ahead, with 219 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Claudia against Clauzell, 1880 to 2025 0 1k 2k 3k 4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Claudia Clauzell

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Claudia has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1937, when Claudia had 800 and Clauzell had 7.

Side by side

  Claudia Clauzell
Total US births 129,07812
Most in one year 3,3837
Babies in 2025 219under 5
Estimated living today 100,0004
Median age today 4977
Peak year 19521937
Best rank 111th girls2,905th boys
Rank in 2025 1,096thunranked
First recorded 18801937
Girls / boys 128,318 / 7600 / 12

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Clauzells alive today are over 77; half the Claudias are over 49. That is 28 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Claudia and Clauzell.