Meaning and history
From an English surname derived from a place name meaning “cliff land,” from Old English clif and land, Cleveland was the surname of American president Grover Cleveland (1837–1908) and is also the name of an American city founded by surveyor Moses Cleaveland (1754–1806).
20062006: 41 births, rank #2,784
2007: 42 births, rank #2,811
2008: 37 births, rank #3,103
2009: 39 births, rank #2,991
2010: 37 births, rank #3,072
20112011: 43 births, rank #2,748
2012: 32 births, rank #3,371
2013: 22 births, rank #4,313
2014: 26 births, rank #3,891
2015: 25 births, rank #4,080
20162016: 23 births, rank #4,327
2017: 28 births, rank #3,781
2018: 23 births, rank #4,354
2019: 21 births, rank #4,639
2020: 20 births, rank #4,698
20212021: 21 births, rank #4,628
2022: 12 births, rank #6,828
2023: 11 births, rank #7,289
2024: 13 births, rank #6,469
20252025: 11 births, rank #7,194
Cleveland rose from #998 to #975 for boys between 1987 and 1989. Its highest annual birth count came in 1947, with 360 births.