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Cletus vs Clevon

American parents have registered 7,709 Cletuses since 1880, against 302 Clevons. Cletus is still ahead, with 9 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Cletus against Clevon, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Cletus Clevon

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

Of the 134 years in which either name was published, Cletus for 126 years and Clevon for 8 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

Side by side

  Cletus Clevon
Total US births 7,709302
Most in one year 24315
Babies in 2025 9under 5
Estimated living today 2,100260
Median age today 6537
Peak year 19221975
Best rank 391st boys2,637th boys
Rank in 2025 8,243rdunranked
First recorded 18861926
Girls / boys 272 / 7,4370 / 302

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 Cletuses alive today are over 65; half the Clevons are over 37. 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: Cletus and Clevon.