Given name & surname
Claud
“one who is lame”
In English use, Claud has a related form in Claude. One English interpretation is “one who is lame.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
In English use, Claud has a related form in Claude. One English interpretation is “one who is lame.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
In English use, Claud has a related form in Claude. An origin associated with Claude is Latin.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In English use, Claud is used as a spelling variant of Claude.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1880. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. In English use, Claud has a related form in Claude. The history of Claude gives this family its wider story. Claude’s historical associations include various early saints.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Claud through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 10,940
- 10,893 boys · 47 girls
- Most popular year
- 1919
- 350 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2010. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 344 in 1919. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,721 as a first name in 2020; 670 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Claud’s family of names
Claud has a feminine form in Claudia. In English usage, Claud has a related form in Claude. In English usage, Claud has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form Claudio.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Claud has relatives in 3 languages.
3 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Claud
- Claud AdjapongItalian association football playerborn 1998
- Claud AllisterBritish actor (1888-1970)
- Claud CockburnBritish journalist (1904-1981)
- Claud B. TicehurstBritish ornithologist & surgeon (1881-1941)
- Claud Hamilton, 1st Lord PaisleyScottish politician and noble1546–1621
- Claud JacobBritish army officer (1863-1948)
- Lord Claud HamiltonBritish politician (1843-1925)
- Claud William WrightBritish paleontologist (1917–2010)
- Claud DerrickAmerican baseball player1886–1974
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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