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Cliffton

Cliffton reached its high-water mark in 1982 at number 1,115, and has been recorded 1,872 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 10,695th. About 1,600 Clifftons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 44.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Cliffton

By the numbers

Total US births
1,872
Estimated living today
1,600
Median age today
44
Peak year
1982
Best rank
1,115th
Rank in 2025
10,695th
First recorded
1912

How old the living Clifftons are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,872 babies given the name since 1912, about 1,600 are alive — 83 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1981 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.

Where Cliffton is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Cliffton is most concentrated in Texas (8.1×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1982

The most popular boys’ names the year Cliffton peaked:

All the names of 1982

Related names

Cliffton 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.