Cleophas · Shortlist Together

Meaning

We don’t have a verified meaning for Cleophas.

We only publish meanings we can cite to a source you could check yourself. Most sites will give you one anyway; the ones you find elsewhere are often copied between sites without verification.

Its story

Popularity since 1906

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Per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births are not in the record, so the line breaks rather than dropping to zero.

See the 72 recorded years as a table

Cleophas, per million boys born. Years absent from the table had fewer than five births.
Year	Per million
1906	38
1907	41
1911	27
1912	16
1913	14
1914	20
1915	13
1916	27
1917	23
1918	21
1919	18
1920	19
1921	25
1922	17
1923	28
1924	21
1925	20
1926	23
1927	17
1928	16
1929	8
1930	22
1931	13
1932	15
1933	21
1934	18
1935	12
1936	18
1937	21
1938	12
1939	10
1940	9
1941	14
1942	9
1943	10
1944	10
1945	9
1946	9
1947	12
1948	6
1949	12
1950	8
1951	7
1952	8
1953	10
1954	4
1955	6
1956	6
1957	6
1958	3
1959	4
1960	5
1961	6
1962	6
1963	2
1964	6
1965	6
1966	6
1967	3
1970	3
1971	5
1972	3
1975	4
1976	4
1977	4
1978	3
1979	5
1980	3
1981	3
1984	3
1986	4
1987	3

Where it’s loved

Most popular in these states

Cleophas isn’t concentrated in any one state. Either it’s spread evenly, or no state reaches the 25 births over three years needed before a rate means anything.

More like it

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The numbers

Every figure

Births in 1987: 5
Rank in 1987: #6,951
How rare: 1 in 373,396 boys
Since 1906: 960

Cleophas was last recorded in 1987. Fewer than five boys have been given the name in any year since, which is the point below which the record stops reporting.

Most popular in 1907, at 41 per million boys born.

There isn’t enough data for a ten-year trend: Cleophas doesn’t appear in both ends of that window.

Figures from the US Social Security Administration’s 2025 release. How these numbers are made.