Meaning and history
From a surname originally derived from a place name meaning “settlement by a cliff” in Old English.
20062006: 146 births, rank #1,154
2007: 154 births, rank #1,152
2008: 131 births, rank #1,325
2009: 132 births, rank #1,314
2010: 107 births, rank #1,517
20112011: 112 births, rank #1,459
2012: 130 births, rank #1,314
2013: 110 births, rank #1,483
2014: 119 births, rank #1,414
2015: 113 births, rank #1,475
20162016: 90 births, rank #1,724
2017: 110 births, rank #1,510
2018: 102 births, rank #1,606
2019: 103 births, rank #1,606
2020: 112 births, rank #1,503
20212021: 91 births, rank #1,763
2022: 78 births, rank #1,965
2023: 105 births, rank #1,640
2024: 95 births, rank #1,735
20252025: 82 births, rank #1,906
Clifton rose from #970 to #947 for boys between 2002 and 2003. Its highest annual birth count came in 1975, with 1,214 births.