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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Cleve

Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation

2025 rank

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not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

4,506

peak year 1951

More common than

96%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1951
83 births
Best rank
#191
in 1885
First recorded
1882
#519 that year
Last recorded
2013
no later published record
Average birth year
1939
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
126 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 195183#767Peak
  2. 194780#769
  3. 195480#808
  4. 194878#767
  5. 195273#822

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #191 in 1885 · peak births 83 in 1951

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 99% boys■ 1% girls

4,506 boys · 23 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Cleve has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.