Clovis vs Cloyd
American parents have registered 3,719 Clovises since 1880, against 3,050 Cloyds. Clovis is still ahead, with 21 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Clovis Cloyd
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 140 years in which either name was published, Clovis for 94 years and Cloyd for 46 years. The lead changed hands 31 times.
- 1880–1909 Cloyd ahead, apart from 2 short spells
- 1912–1964 Clovis ahead, apart from 5 short spells
- 1967–1970 Cloyd ahead
- 1971–2025 Clovis ahead, apart from 2 short spells
19 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Clovis | Cloyd | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 3,719 | 3,050 |
| Most in one year | 101 | 91 |
| Babies in 2025 | 21 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 1,200 | 680 |
| Median age today | 63 | 71 |
| Peak year | 1917 | 1918 |
| Best rank | 650th boys | 645th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 4,707th | unranked |
| First recorded | 1880 | 1880 |
| Girls / boys | 627 / 3,092 | 0 / 3,050 |
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 Cloyds alive today are over 71; half the Clovises are over 63. That is 8 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Clovis Louisiana (9.2×), Mississippi (8.2×), Oklahoma (7.9×)
- Cloyd Pennsylvania (9.6×), Ohio (4.4×), Oklahoma (1.9×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Clovis and Cloyd.