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Clora vs Clovia

American parents have registered 1,800 Cloras since 1880, against 100 Clovias. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Clora against Clovia, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Clora Clovia

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 85 years in which either name was published, Clora for 80 years and Clovia for 5 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Clora Clovia
Total US births 1,800100
Most in one year 4922
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 31080
Median age today 7871
Peak year 19241949
Best rank 1,114th girls2,069th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 18821949
Girls / boys 1,800 / 0100 / 0

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 Cloras alive today are over 78; half the Clovias are over 71. That is 7 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: Clora and Clovia.