Clyda vs Clydie
American parents have registered 875 Clydies since 1880, against 758 Clydas. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Clyda Clydie
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 72 years in which either name was published, Clydie for 43 years and Clyda for 29 years. The lead changed hands 25 times.
- 1880–1898 Clyda ahead
- 1902–1936 Clydie ahead, apart from 4 short spells
- 1937–1940 Clyda ahead
- 1947–1957 Clydie ahead, apart from 2 short spells
16 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Clyda | Clydie | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 758 | 875 |
| Most in one year | 23 | 35 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 170 | 190 |
| Median age today | 80 | 78 |
| Peak year | 1924 | 1922 |
| Best rank | 1,811th girls | 1,366th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | unranked |
| First recorded | 1880 | 1892 |
| Girls / boys | 758 / 0 | 853 / 22 |
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 Clydas alive today are over 80; half the Clydies are over 78. That is 2 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: Clyda and Clydie.