The name Claudia is a femine form of Claudius, which was originally an ancient Roman family name. Its origins are not entirely clear, it is possibly derived from Latin ‘claudus’ meaning ‘lame, crippled’.
Claudia is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The name Claudia isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Claudia ranks 758. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Claudia. In the entire USA, approximately 120,633 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Claudia. That is 0.04 % of all living Americans.
The name Claudia is a femine form of Claudius, which was originally an ancient Roman family name. Its origins are not entirely clear, it is possibly derived from Latin ‘claudus’ meaning ‘lame, crippled’.
Claudia has been... used more extensively only since the 16th century and especially in Christian cultures.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their daughter Claudia annualy. This means that there have been girls named Claudia who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus women named Claudia have consistently been special. A small flight of popularity was experienced by the name way back in the last century and in one particular year, parents liked Claudia even more than any other time: in 1952, it holds its present record of #110 in the ranking of the most popular girls' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Claudia was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Claudia has never been ranked higher than #110. In 2022, she rivaled the 994 names that preceded her on the list. In total, 225 girls named Claudia were born in that year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Claudia were born, there have been 1,596 newborns who received this name.
The name Claudia may not be in the top rankings of the most popular girls’ names, but it is one of the few female given names, along with only 536 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Claudia is apparently especially popular in California. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular women’s names here either, one in 606 women in California is called Claudia. In total, that’s 24,590 women who feel addressed when the name Claudia is shouted loudly across California and who ensure that their name makes it to #130 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common female names in this nice state. If you asked all women in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Claudia as the answer a total of 120,407 times. This places Claudia at #284 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular women’s names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living women across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Claudia as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter C is a frequent initial letter for girls' names. This is because 6.0% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M.
With seven letters, the name Claudia has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.0% of all girls' names that begin with a C, this first letter is much more common than the average of all letters. And which girls’ name beginning with C do you think is the most common in the US? The answer is... Carol.
If your name is Claudia and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Claudia, you can simply say:
Cat
Lion
Apple
Unicorn
Dinosaur
Igloo
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Claudia
Claudia
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
C
L
A
U
D
I
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
C
L
A
U
D
I
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Claudia sounds like this:
