Clif
The boy's name Clif has been in the national records since 1945, with 199 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 1981. About 150 Clifs are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 65.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Clif
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 199
- Estimated living today
- 150
- Median age today
- 65
- Peak year
- 1959
- Best rank
- 1,865th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1945
How old the living Clifs are
born that year still alive today
Of the 199 babies given the name since 1945, about 150 are alive — 75 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1960 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Names of 1959
The most popular boys’ names the year Clif peaked:
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Clif against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.