Klaudia vs Klaus

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Klaudia Klaus

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 73 years in which either name was published, Klaus for 51 years and Klaudia for 22 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

• 1953–1981 Klaus ahead
• 1982 Klaudia ahead
• 1983–1990 Klaus ahead
• 1991 Klaudia ahead
• 1992–1993 Klaus ahead
• 1994–2013 Klaudia ahead
• 2014–2025 Klaus ahead

Side by side

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 Klaudias alive today are over 21; half the Klauses are over 13. That is 8 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Klaudia Illinois (12.4×), New Jersey (3.1×), New York (2.7×)
• Klaus California (5.1×), Texas (2.1×), New York (1.6×)

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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