How rare is the name Claudine?

8,026 people in the United States have the first name Claudine, about 1 in 37,632. It ranks #2,869 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

CLAUDINE

#2,869

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
8,026
About
1 in 37,632
This common or more
81.1%
Who bears it

Of the 8,026 people named Claudine, 53.1% reported their origin as White, 30% as Black and 6.5% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Claudine peaked in 1970, when 442 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802024
Peak year
1970
Births that year
442
In 2024
6 ▼99%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 11,338 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Claudine by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1930s, when it ranked #922. The largest share of babies named Claudine, 26.8%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1880s#1,86940
1890s#1,478117
1900s#1,258217
1910s#1,0281,085
1920s#9321,880
1930s#9221,686
1940s#1,1831,345
1950s#1,758917
1960s#1,4361,504
1970s#1,3821,819
1980s#4,734310
1990s#7,548221
2000s#12,870142
2010s#26,19342
2020s#30,66213
Before 19011.5%
Greatest Generation 1901–2724.7%
Silent Generation 1928–4525.5%
Baby boom 1946–6415.7%
Generation X 1965–8026.8%
Millennials 1981–963.6%
Generation Z 1997–122.1%
2013 and later0.3%

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 Claudine is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Claudine has been most common in Mississippi (3.8×), Arkansas (3.4×), and Oklahoma (3.1×), and least common in Ohio (0.27×).

7,255 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.

Exactly as common as Claudine

1 other first name also has 8,026 people.

Spelled almost the same

4 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Claudine, most common first.

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