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Cleatus vs Cleveland

American parents have registered 22,032 Clevelands since 1880, against 965 Cleatuses. Cleveland is still ahead, with 11 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Cleatus against Cleveland, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Cleatus Cleveland

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

Cleveland has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1931, when Cleatus had 29 and Cleveland had 244.

Side by side

  Cleatus Cleveland
Total US births 96522,032
Most in one year 33368
Babies in 2025 under 511
Estimated living today 2609,400
Median age today 7160
Peak year 19241947
Best rank 1,355th boys360th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked7,194th
First recorded 19071880
Girls / boys 71 / 89487 / 21,945

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 Cleatuses alive today are over 71; half the Clevelands are over 60. That is 11 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: Cleatus and Cleveland.