Claude
About Claude
The name Claude peaked for boys at #46 in 1887. The name is most popular in New York, Georgia, and Georgia. Claude is occasionally used for girls in 1993.
1 syllable.
As of September 2026, Claude ranked #3044 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #46 in 1887, Nameberry popularity #398.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #2,815 | 42 | 21.9 |
| 2015 | #2,432 | 52 | 27.1 |
| 2016 | #2,368 | 55 | 29 |
| 2017 | #2,965 | 40 | 21.6 |
| 2018 | #2,515 | 51 | 28.1 |
| 2019 | #2,903 | 42 | 23.4 |
| 2020 | #2,768 | 44 | 25.5 |
| 2021 | #3,133 | 38 | 21.7 |
| 2022 | #3,423 | 34 | 19.5 |
| 2023 | #3,126 | 39 | 22.8 |
| 2024 | #3,332 | 35 | 20.3 |
| 2025 | #3,044 | 40 | 23.4 |
World rankings
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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