Given name
Cleophas
“having a vision of glory”
Cleophas is used as a given name. One Greek interpretation is “having a vision of glory.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Greek interpretation is “having a vision of glory.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Greek.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1904. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Cleophas through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 983
- 960 boys · 23 girls
- Most popular year
- 1923
- 31 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 1987. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 31 in 1923. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 385 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.
Cleophas’s family of names
Cleophas has a related form in Cleophus. Cleophas has a related form in Cleofas. Cleophas has a related form in Cleofaso.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 6
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Cleophas
- Cleophas Oseso TukaKenyan Roman Catholic bishopborn 1967
- Cléophas KamitatuCongolese politician (1931-2008)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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