Claude

Where Claude comes from

In use from the 16th century. Borrowed from French Claude, from Latin Claudius, the name of a Roman gens. The clan name is traditionally said to be from Latin claudus (“lame”), but is most likely of Sabine origin.
— Wiktionary's entry for Claude
  • Latin
  • 1 syllable
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1862
    Claude Debussy born
    French classical composer
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #56 among boys — 309 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1887
    Peak, #46
    375 babies named Claude — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1908
    Claude Lévi-Strauss born
    French anthropologist and ethnologist
  5. 1983
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #628.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Latin.
Namesakes
  • Claude Debussy · French classical composer, 1862–1918
  • Claude Lévi-Strauss · French anthropologist and ethnologist, 1908–2009
  • Claude Simon · French writer, 1913–2005
  • Claude Bernard · French physiologist, 1813–1878
  • Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon · French early socialist theorist, 1760–1825

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.