Claus
Last seen for boys in 1980 at #6,250
- Peak · boys
- 1880 · 7 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 366since 1880
Claus over time
Rank among boys' names. Claus has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
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| 1980 | #6,250 | 5 |
| 1979 | — | |
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| 1970 | — | |
| 1969 | #3,935 | 6 |
| 1968 | #3,673 | 6 |
| 1967 | #3,559 | 6 |
| 1966 | #3,537 | 6 |
| 1965 | #2,780 | 9 |
| 1964 | #3,282 | 7 |
| 1963 | #2,673 | 10 |
| 1962 | #4,033 | 5 |
| 1961 | #2,900 | 9 |
| 1960 | #4,038 | 5 |
| 1959 | #2,530 | 11 |
| 1958 | #3,559 | 6 |
| 1957 | #3,024 | 8 |
| 1956 | #2,497 | 11 |
| 1955 | #2,964 | 8 |
| 1954 | #3,827 | 5 |
| 1953 | — | |
| 1952 | #3,373 | 6 |
| 1951 | — | |
| 1950 | — | |
| 1949 | #3,690 | 5 |
| 1948 | — | |
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| 1941 | #3,133 | 6 |
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| 1937 | — | |
| 1936 | #2,184 | 11 |
| 1935 | — | |
| 1934 | #2,973 | 7 |
| 1933 | — | |
| 1932 | #3,092 | 7 |
| 1931 | #3,390 | 6 |
| 1930 | #3,289 | 7 |
| 1929 | #2,980 | 8 |
| 1928 | — | |
| 1927 | #4,210 | 5 |
| 1926 | #3,385 | 7 |
| 1925 | #2,435 | 12 |
| 1924 | #3,023 | 9 |
| 1923 | #3,175 | 8 |
| 1922 | #3,252 | 8 |
| 1921 | #3,214 | 8 |
| 1920 | #4,286 | 5 |
| 1919 | #3,115 | 8 |
| 1918 | #3,728 | 6 |
| 1917 | #3,217 | 7 |
| 1916 | #2,152 | 13 |
| 1915 | #3,392 | 6 |
| 1914 | #3,264 | 5 |
| 1913 | #2,496 | 6 |
| 1912 | #2,045 | 7 |
| 1911 | #1,740 | 5 |
| 1910 | — | |
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| 1908 | — | |
| 1907 | #1,200 | 6 |
| 1906 | — | |
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| 1902 | — | |
| 1901 | #1,058 | 5 |
| 1900 | — | |
| 1899 | — | |
| 1898 | #804 | 8 |
| 1897 | — | |
| 1896 | — | |
| 1895 | #978 | 6 |
| 1894 | — | |
| 1893 | — | |
| 1892 | — | |
| 1891 | #766 | 7 |
| 1890 | #884 | 6 |
| 1889 | — | |
| 1888 | — | |
| 1887 | #921 | 5 |
| 1886 | — | |
| 1885 | #936 | 5 |
| 1884 | — | |
| 1883 | — | |
| 1882 | — | |
| 1881 | — | |
| 1880 | #745 | 7 |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Claus was already there! It came in at #745, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1881–1889, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Claus
- Not published in 2025; last seen 1980
- Biggest jump: 118 spots in 1891 (#884 → #766)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1880 at #745 (7 births)
- Births halved by 1881, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 1890–1891
- Highest: 1 in 14,456 boys born in 1891 were named Claus (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 356,790 boys born in 1980 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #745 in 1880, was only 1 in 15,784 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 19.1% of all boys named Claus (70) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 17 | #745 (1880) | #867 |
| 1890s | 27 | #766 (1891) | #858 |
| 1900s | 11 | #1,058 (1901) | #1,129 |
| 1910s | 63 | #1,740 (1911) | #2,794 |
| 1920s | 70 | #2,435 (1925) | #3,329 |
| 1930s | 38 | #2,184 (1936) | #2,986 |
| 1940s | 11 | #3,133 (1941) | #3,412 |
| 1950s | 55 | #2,497 (1956) | #3,111 |
| 1960s | 69 | #2,673 (1963) | #3,441 |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 5 | #6,250 (1980) | #6,250 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Claus in 1898
Top boys' names in 1898
More about 1898
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122,685 boys got a published name in 1898; 1 in 15,336 of them was named Claus, which outranked 37.6% of the 1,289 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 34.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).