Clifford

Where Clifford comes from

From Old English clif (“cliff”) + ford (“ford”), a dweller at the ford by the steep bank.
— Wiktionary's entry for Clifford
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #107 among boys — 127 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1904
    Clifford D. Simak born
    American writer, journalist
  3. 1909
    Peak, #57
    536 babies named Clifford — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1915
    Clifford Shull born
    American physicist
  5. 1998
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #654.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes
  • Clifford Shull · American physicist, 1915–2001
  • Clifford D. Simak · American writer, journalist, 1904–1988
  • Clifford Geertz · American anthropologist, 1926–2006

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.