first name
CLAUDETTE
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 17,470 people named Claudette, 46.4% reported their origin as White, 42.9% as Black and 5.3% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Claudette peaked in 1936, when 709 babies got the name.
At least 18,795 babies have been given the name since 1915. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Claudette by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1930s, when it ranked #558. The largest share of babies named Claudette, 42.1%, were born during the baby boom (1946–1964).
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Claudette is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Claudette has been most common in Maine (9.5×), New Hampshire (5.6×), and Rhode Island (5.2×), and least common in Colorado (0.24×).
15,597 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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