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Clovis

Clovis reached its high-water mark in 1917 at number 650, and has been recorded 3,719 times in all. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 4,707th. About 1,200 Clovises are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 63.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Clovis boys named Clovis

Girls and boys called Clovis

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 627 girls and 3,092 boys in all, and in 1963 the split was 8 to 20.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 48 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births
3,719
Estimated living today
1,200
Median age today
63
Peak year
1917
Best rank
650th
Rank in 2025
4,707th
First recorded
1880
Girls / boys
627 / 3,092

How old the living Clovises are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 3,719 babies given the name since 1880, about 1,200 are alive — 31 in every hundred. Roughly 180 of them are children and 560 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1962 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 the name comes from

Borrowed from French Clovis, from Frankish *Hlōdowig, the same Germanic source as French Louis, Dutch Lodewijk and German Ludwig, see there for further information.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Cloviss

People named Clovis with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Clovis is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Clovis is most concentrated in Louisiana (9.2×), Mississippi (8.2×), Oklahoma (7.9×), Texas (5.7×).

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

Names of 1917

The most popular boys’ names the year Clovis peaked:

All the names of 1917

Clovis elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France boys Clovis 10,890 208th
Belgium boys Clovis 309 522nd
Switzerland boys Clovis 87 782nd
England and Wales boys Clovis 12 3,996th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Clovis: births by region

RegionCountry Spelling BirthsShare of the region Best rank
German boys Switzerland Clovis 9 0.001% 999th
French boys Switzerland Clovis 76 0.017% 278th
Italian boys Switzerland Clovis 2 0.003% 184th

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Clovis is most concentrated in Vaud, where 0.02% of children were given it – 26 of them.

Clovis: rank by region

In 2024, Clovis was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Wallonia Clovis 376 7

In 2018, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Clovis appears in the lists for Province of Hainaut (171st).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Clovis among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
Finland boys Clovis 6

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Related names

Clovis 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.