Cĺive
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Cĺive is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country. In Guyana it is the 73rd most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Middle English cliven, from Old English clīfan (“to cleave, adhere, stick”), from Proto-West Germanic *klīban, from Proto-Germanic *klībaną (“to glue, stick”), from Proto-Indo-European *gleybʰ- (.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 2.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 2.5K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 390 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈29,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Clive in GB United Kingdom, US United States, AU Australia and 5 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Middle Englishcliven(measured from records)
- Old Englishclīfan“to cleave“to cleave, adhere, stick”(measured from records)
- Proto-West Germanic*klīban(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*klībaną“to glue“to glue, stick”(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*gleybʰ-“to lubricate“to lubricate, stick”(measured from records)
From Middle English cliven, from Old English clīfan (“to cleave, adhere, stick”), from Proto-West Germanic *klīban, from Proto-Germanic *klībaną (“to glue, stick”), from Proto-Indo-European *gleybʰ- (“to lubricate, stick”). Cognate with Dutch kleven (“to adhere, stick”), German kleben (“to adhere, stick”), Swedish kliva (“to climb, stalk”), Icelandic klífa (“to climb, ascend”).
Sources 9
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
- A concise dictionary of first names
- A dictionary of surnames
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Irish first names
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cĺive counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | #306 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | 3 | Clive | 300 |
| ZA South Africa | #309 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Clive | 118 |
| US United States | — | 4,541 | 1 in 73K | 4.5K | Clive | 390 |
| AU Australia | #674 | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | 3 | Clive | 187 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 28K | 1 | Clive | 146 |
| NZ New Zealand | #374 | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 5K | 13 | Clive | 110 |
| JM Jamaica | #121 | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | — | Clive | 18 |
| GY Guyana | #73 | 516 | 1 in 1.5K | 516 | Clive | 6 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Cĺive mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English cliven, from Old English clīfan (“to cleave, adhere, stick”), from Proto-West Germanic *klīban, from Proto-Germanic *klībaną (“to glue, stick”), from Proto-Indo-European *gleybʰ- (… Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado and A concise dictionary of first names and 7 other sources.
- Is Cĺive a male or female name?
- Cĺive is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Cĺive have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 29 thousand people named Cĺive in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled clive.
- Where is Cĺive most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Cĺive is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 1.5 thousand people — even though United Kingdom holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Cĺive?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,541 people named Cĺive in 2020, about 1 in 73 thousand residents.
- How common is Cĺive compared with other names?
- In the United Kingdom, Cĺive is the 306th most common given name of 404,737 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/c%C4%BAiveThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Cĺive” — the 306th most common given name in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.