Given name & surname
Claudine
“one who is lame”
Claudine is a French feminine form of Claude with a strong literary association.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Claudine is a diminutive of Claude. One English interpretation is “one who is lame.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Claudine is a diminutive of Claude. An origin associated with Claude is Latin.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In French use, Claudine is used as a feminine counterpart of Claude.
The story
The heroine of Colette’s Claudine novels helped popularize this name at the beginning of the twentieth century. It subsequently also found occasional use in English-speaking communities.
Claudine through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 11,338
- 15 boys · 11,323 girls
- Most popular year
- 1970
- 442 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 girls is 6 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 442 in 1970. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 8,026 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Claudine’s family of names
Claudine is a diminutive of Claude. In German usage, Claudine has a related form in Claudia. In French usage, Claudine has a conventional equivalent in the German form Claudia.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Claudine 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 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Claudine
- Claudine AugerFrench actress (1941-2019)
- Marie DuboisFrench actress (1937-2014)
- MauraneBelgian singer (1960-2018)
- Claudine LongetFrench singer (1942–2026)
- Claudine Guérin de TencinFrench writer and salonist1682–1749
- Claudine PicardetFrench chemist, mineralogist, meteorologist and translator (1735-1820)
- Claudine GayAmerican political scientist and university administratorborn 1970
- Claudine, Lady of MonacoRuler of Monaco, later Lady Consort of Monaca (1451-1515)
- Claudine SchaulLuxembourgian female tennis playerborn 1983
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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