Cleveland
About Cleveland
A presidential and place-name that's not a stand-out in either category.
Pronounced KLEEV-lund.
As of October 2026, Cleveland ranked #7286 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #92 in 1884.
Editor's take: The name Cleveland is a boy's name of English origin meaning "hilly land, from the cliff".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #3,919 | 26 | 13.5 |
| 2015 | #4,100 | 25 | 13 |
| 2016 | #4,350 | 23 | 12.1 |
| 2017 | #3,791 | 28 | 15.1 |
| 2018 | #4,385 | 23 | 12.7 |
| 2019 | #4,667 | 21 | 11.7 |
| 2020 | #4,730 | 20 | 11.6 |
| 2021 | #4,657 | 21 | 12 |
| 2022 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | — | 0 | 0 |
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Cleveland on lists
Famous Clevelands
- Cleveland Amory
American author and animal rights activist
- Cleveland Keith "Cleve" Benedict
U.S. Congressman from West Virginia
- Cleveland White
aka Schoolboy Cleve, American blues harmonica player
- Grover Cleveland
22nd and 24th President of the United States
Cleveland in pop culture
- Cleveland Orenthal Brown
character on TV's "Family Guy" and "The Cleveland Show"
- Cleveland
Ohio, USA
- Cleveland the Puppy
cute adorable puppy who appears in an 1999 article in the Satire newspaper "The Onion"
- the article is here
https://www.theonion.com/im,taking,cuddliness,to,a,whole,new,level,1819583621
- Cleveland "Book" Booker
character in the TV series Star Trek: Discovery, first appears in Season 3 of the show