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Claude

OriginFrench from Latin
Meaning"lame; enclosure"
GenderBoy
US Rank#889

Top 1000

NB Rank#143

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About Claude

The name Claude is currently ranked #889 in U.S. births. and peaked for boys at #46 in 1887. It is currently rising in popularity. The name is most popular in CLAUDE, CLAUDE, and CLAUDE. Claude is occasionally used for girls in 1993.

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Famous Claudes

  • (Oscar

    )Claude Monet, French impressionist painter

  • (Achille

    )Claude Debussy, French composer

  • Claude Kelly

    American singer,songwriter

  • (William) Claude Rains

    English actor

  • Festus Claudius "Claude" McKay

    Jamaican,American novelist

  • Claude Elwood Shannon

    American mathematician

  • Claude Makélélé

    French footballer

  • Claude Lévi

    Strauss, French anthropologist

  • Claude Picasso

    son of painter Pablo Picasso

  • Claude Simon

    French novelist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

  • Claude Cohen

    Tannoudji, French physicist; winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics

  • Claude Blue Baker

    son of actors Simon Baker and Rebecca Rigg

  • Claude Giroux

    Canadian hockey player

  • Claude Indiana Emmanuel Hanson

    son of American musician Taylor Hanson

Claude in pop culture

  • Claude Gianni

    Ray's best friend on Everybody Loves Raymond

  • Claude Frollo

    character in Victor Hugo's Notre,Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame)

  • Claude Faustus

    character in the anime/manga Kuroshitsuji / Black Butler

  • Claude von Riegan

    house leader in video game Fire Emblem Three Houses

  • Claude Hooper Bukowski

    protagonist of musical Hair

Variations & nicknames

  • ClaudiosGreek
  • ClaudicioSpanish
  • ClaudFrench
  • KlaudiuszPolish
  • ClaudiuFrench
  • GlaudioSpanish
  • ClaudianFrench
  • ClaudienFrench
  • KlavdiiRussian
  • ClaudiusGerman
  • ClavioSpanish
  • KolosHungarian
  • CladioSpanish
  • ClaudioSpanish

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