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Claud

As a boy's name, Claud traces back to Roman, where it is understood to mean "Roman clan name meaning lame". It was at its most popular in the 1920s and is rarely chosen now. As things stand now, it is a distinctive, less common pick. The name's best year yet was 1919.

EtymologyVariant of Claude
RomanRoman clan name meaning "lame"
Births by decade
1900s
811
1910s
2,217
1920s
2,742
1930s
1,403
1940s
957
1950s
581
1960s
272
1970s
135
1980s
68
1990s
41
2000s
0
2010s
5
Peaked in the 1920s · 9,232 total U.S. births since 1900