Cliff
Where Cliff comes from
Cliff hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.
Along the way
- 1880First SSA yearAlready #745 among boys — 7 babies in the first year on record.
- 1886Peak, #35723 babies named Cliff — more than any year before or since.
- 1912Cliff Bastin bornEnglish footballer
- 1949Cliff Williams bornEnglish musician
In the dictionary
No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.
Namesakes
- Cliff Williams · English musician, born 1949
- Cliff Bastin · English footballer, 1912–1991
- Cliff Martinez · American musician and composer, composer, drummer, born 1954
- Cliff DeYoung · American actor, born 1945
- Cliff Jones · Welsh footballer, born 1935
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.