Cliff

Where Cliff comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Cliff.

Cliff through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #745 among boys, with 7 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1886
    Peak, #357
    23 babies named Cliff, its best rank.
  3. 1912
    Cliff Bastin born
    English footballer
  4. 1949
    Cliff Williams born
    English musician
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

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.