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Clovis

A name with a story to discover

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Origin: Not established
5 language contexts: English French Spanish +2 more
Follow the evidence: 8 cited sources Source-reported

01 / Meaning & origin

About Clovis

Clovis is a masculine given name documented in English, French, Spanish and 2 other languages. English Wiktionary records an etymology for it.

Separate records with matching spellings: Clóvis (Portuguese)

Etymology in the sources

Source-reported

Borrowed from French Clovis, from Frankish *Hlōdowig, the same Germanic source as French Louis, Dutch Lodewijk and German Ludwig, see there for further information. Doublet of Louis and Ludwig. The New Mexican city was named after a Frankish king; the Native American site and culture were named after this city.

Sources for this account (4)

Wiktionary: ClovisCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: ClovisCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: ClovisCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: ClovisCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

02 / Across borders

Where Clovis is used

Explore official naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

The name atlas

Across borders

countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Clovis’s connections around the world.

5 countries with official statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Statistics + language records

United States, 2025: 21 boys (rank 4707). Documented as a given name in English.

Explore United States

4 of 17 countries

03 / By the numbers

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

United States

1880–2025 Spelling: Clovis

Region and dataset

Latest · 2025: 21; applications; Rank #4,707
Peak year: 1917; 84 applications

Hover to explore a year. Use arrow keys when a chart point has focus.

Source: US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)

Integer application counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

Show the data table

Clovis in United States, boys: applications and rank by year
Year	Applications	Rank	Status
1880	7	745	observed
1881	no value	no value	not covered
1882	no value	no value	not covered
1883	no value	no value	not covered
1884	no value	no value	not covered
1885	no value	no value	not covered
1886	no value	no value	not covered
1887	no value	no value	not covered
1888	7	815	observed
1889	no value	no value	not covered
1890	8	739	observed
1891	no value	no value	not covered
1892	6	956	observed
1893	9	705	observed
1894	no value	no value	not covered
1895	5	1,079	observed
1896	7	900	observed
1897	7	852	observed
1898	8	804	observed
1899	no value	no value	not covered
1900	6	1,162	observed
1901	5	1,058	observed
1902	no value	no value	not covered
1903	12	656	observed
1904	12	686	observed
1905	9	836	observed
1906	8	927	observed
1907	5	1,345	observed
1908	12	779	observed
1909	7	1,155	observed
1910	13	859	observed
1911	13	925	observed
1912	36	713	observed
1913	40	734	observed
1914	64	632	observed
1915	65	741	observed
1916	63	771	observed
1917	84	650	observed
1918	68	789	observed
1919	65	811	observed
1920	78	739	observed
1921	62	884	observed
1922	68	818	observed
1923	70	791	observed
1924	72	793	observed
1925	62	843	observed
1926	63	831	observed
1927	55	924	observed
1928	58	872	observed
1929	65	801	observed
1930	66	797	observed
1931	47	959	observed
1932	40	1,056	observed
1933	58	812	observed
1934	62	788	observed
1935	63	778	observed
1936	37	1,051	observed
1937	53	835	observed
1938	34	1,109	observed
1939	32	1,141	observed
1940	42	994	observed
1941	42	987	observed
1942	43	1,026	observed
1943	26	1,368	observed
1944	30	1,212	observed
1945	32	1,163	observed
1946	43	1,045	observed
1947	36	1,213	observed
1948	39	1,145	observed
1949	26	1,434	observed
1950	27	1,395	observed
1951	38	1,171	observed
1952	25	1,517	observed
1953	24	1,551	observed
1954	28	1,435	observed
1955	23	1,611	observed
1956	23	1,642	observed
1957	38	1,267	observed
1958	21	1,724	observed
1959	23	1,665	observed
1960	14	2,210	observed
1961	22	1,731	observed
1962	24	1,625	observed
1963	20	1,792	observed
1964	21	1,729	observed
1965	11	2,476	observed
1966	14	2,132	observed
1967	11	2,470	observed
1968	10	2,735	observed
1969	16	2,130	observed
1970	14	2,509	observed
1971	13	2,686	observed
1972	15	2,418	observed
1973	12	2,857	observed
1974	16	2,459	observed
1975	10	3,428	observed
1976	11	3,264	observed
1977	9	3,836	observed
1978	15	2,799	observed
1979	12	3,357	observed
1980	13	3,256	observed
1981	7	4,961	observed
1982	10	3,966	observed
1983	12	3,411	observed
1984	13	3,270	observed
1985	9	4,333	observed
1986	12	3,653	observed
1987	10	4,239	observed
1988	6	6,426	observed
1989	6	6,941	observed
1990	6	7,178	observed
1991	8	5,942	observed
1992	8	6,128	observed
1993	5	8,700	observed
1994	10	5,452	observed
1995	no value	no value	not covered
1996	6	7,971	observed
1997	8	6,618	observed
1998	no value	no value	not covered
1999	no value	no value	not covered
2000	6	9,112	observed
2001	no value	no value	not covered
2002	10	6,522	observed
2003	no value	no value	not covered
2004	9	7,536	observed
2005	8	8,299	observed
2006	8	8,732	observed
2007	6	10,921	observed
2008	6	11,037	observed
2009	5	12,491	observed
2010	6	10,766	observed
2011	12	6,578	observed
2012	10	7,559	observed
2013	9	8,118	observed
2014	no value	no value	not covered
2015	6	10,644	observed
2016	8	8,816	observed
2017	11	7,095	observed
2018	14	6,036	observed
2019	13	6,406	observed
2020	8	8,739	observed
2021	19	4,936	observed
2022	16	5,633	observed
2023	5	12,239	observed
2024	12	6,832	observed
2025	21	4,707	observed

About this dataset and its counting rules

Statistics count the spelling “Clovis” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure applications. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: US national Social Security card applications by name, sex and birth year; not a complete birth registry, especially before 1937.
Rounding: Integer application counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: Only names with at least 5 occurrences in a year and sex are included. Missing observations are not zeros.
Ranking: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips. The mirror's derived rank column is not used.

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC0-1.0

Read our methodology

04 / Through time

History

Historical scholarship

Passages quoted verbatim from public-domain reference works. They reflect the scholarship of their time, not current consensus, and may use obsolete spellings.

1884From the archives
Clovis— “holy fame”
The husband of Clotilda was known to his own fierce Franks as Hluodowig, or famous war, or consecration; but when his success after his prayer to the God of Hluodhild had brought him to abjure his Teuton gods, and receive baptism from St. Remi, the pope accepted the only orthodox sovereign of Europe as most Christian king and eldest son of the Church by the appellation of Chlodovisus, or Clovis, the retranslation into French.
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part VI, Chapter V (The Karling Romances), Section VIII (Louis) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)

Notable bearers (sourced)

People on Wikidata whose recorded given name is this item (not necessarily their first name), ordered by number of Wikipedia articles. Their names may use a different spelling.

Clovis I (466–511) — first king of the Franks (c. 466-511) source
Clovis II (635–657) — King of Neustria and Burgundy source
Clovis IV (677–695) — King of the Franks source
Clovis III (670–676) — King of Austrasia source
Clovis Cornillac (born 1968) — French actor and film director source

A little story to keep

A name worth keeping.

Take the story of Clovis with you. Create a personal name passport with its meaning, roots and connections.

06 / Behind the facts

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms5

Wikidata Q16275220CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: ClovisCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: ClovisCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: ClovisCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: ClovisCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Pronunciation recordingsAudio credits and individual recording licences2

Wikimedia Commons: File:LL-Q150 (fra)-Lepticed7-Clovis.wavCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wikimedia Commons: File:LL-Q150 (fra)-Mecanautes-Clovis.wavCC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Historical referencesOriginal texts and their publication details1

Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part VI, Chapter V (The Karling Romances), Section VIII (Louis)Public domain (Project Gutenberg) · rev. 2023-03-30 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Official statisticsPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates5

SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Switzerland — published first names of newborns, 2000–2025
Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Switzerland · opendata.swiss OPEN-BY (commercial and non-commercial reuse with source attribution) · retrieved 2026-10-15
Spain — first names of residents, census snapshot 2025-01-01
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Spain · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017
Attorney-General's Department, South Australia (via data.sa.gov.au) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

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About Clovis

Clovis is a masculine given name documented in English, French, Spanish and 2 other languages. English Wiktionary records an etymology for it.

Separate records with matching spellings: Clóvis (Portuguese)

Etymology in the sources

Source-reported

Sources for this account (4)

Wiktionary: ClovisCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: ClovisCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: ClovisCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: ClovisCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Where Clovis is used

Explore official naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

The name atlas

Across borders

countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Clovis’s connections around the world.

5 countries with official statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Statistics + language records

United States, 2025: 21 boys (rank 4707). Documented as a given name in English.

Explore United States

4 of 17 countries

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

United States

1880–2025 Spelling: Clovis

Region and dataset

Latest · 2025: 21; applications; Rank #4,707
Peak year: 1917; 84 applications

Hover to explore a year. Use arrow keys when a chart point has focus.

Source: US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)

Integer application counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

Show the data table

Clovis in United States, boys: applications and rank by year
Year	Applications	Rank	Status
1880	7	745	observed
1881	no value	no value	not covered
1882	no value	no value	not covered
1883	no value	no value	not covered
1884	no value	no value	not covered
1885	no value	no value	not covered
1886	no value	no value	not covered
1887	no value	no value	not covered
1888	7	815	observed
1889	no value	no value	not covered
1890	8	739	observed
1891	no value	no value	not covered
1892	6	956	observed
1893	9	705	observed
1894	no value	no value	not covered
1895	5	1,079	observed
1896	7	900	observed
1897	7	852	observed
1898	8	804	observed
1899	no value	no value	not covered
1900	6	1,162	observed
1901	5	1,058	observed
1902	no value	no value	not covered
1903	12	656	observed
1904	12	686	observed
1905	9	836	observed
1906	8	927	observed
1907	5	1,345	observed
1908	12	779	observed
1909	7	1,155	observed
1910	13	859	observed
1911	13	925	observed
1912	36	713	observed
1913	40	734	observed
1914	64	632	observed
1915	65	741	observed
1916	63	771	observed
1917	84	650	observed
1918	68	789	observed
1919	65	811	observed
1920	78	739	observed
1921	62	884	observed
1922	68	818	observed
1923	70	791	observed
1924	72	793	observed
1925	62	843	observed
1926	63	831	observed
1927	55	924	observed
1928	58	872	observed
1929	65	801	observed
1930	66	797	observed
1931	47	959	observed
1932	40	1,056	observed
1933	58	812	observed
1934	62	788	observed
1935	63	778	observed
1936	37	1,051	observed
1937	53	835	observed
1938	34	1,109	observed
1939	32	1,141	observed
1940	42	994	observed
1941	42	987	observed
1942	43	1,026	observed
1943	26	1,368	observed
1944	30	1,212	observed
1945	32	1,163	observed
1946	43	1,045	observed
1947	36	1,213	observed
1948	39	1,145	observed
1949	26	1,434	observed
1950	27	1,395	observed
1951	38	1,171	observed
1952	25	1,517	observed
1953	24	1,551	observed
1954	28	1,435	observed
1955	23	1,611	observed
1956	23	1,642	observed
1957	38	1,267	observed
1958	21	1,724	observed
1959	23	1,665	observed
1960	14	2,210	observed
1961	22	1,731	observed
1962	24	1,625	observed
1963	20	1,792	observed
1964	21	1,729	observed
1965	11	2,476	observed
1966	14	2,132	observed
1967	11	2,470	observed
1968	10	2,735	observed
1969	16	2,130	observed
1970	14	2,509	observed
1971	13	2,686	observed
1972	15	2,418	observed
1973	12	2,857	observed
1974	16	2,459	observed
1975	10	3,428	observed
1976	11	3,264	observed
1977	9	3,836	observed
1978	15	2,799	observed
1979	12	3,357	observed
1980	13	3,256	observed
1981	7	4,961	observed
1982	10	3,966	observed
1983	12	3,411	observed
1984	13	3,270	observed
1985	9	4,333	observed
1986	12	3,653	observed
1987	10	4,239	observed
1988	6	6,426	observed
1989	6	6,941	observed
1990	6	7,178	observed
1991	8	5,942	observed
1992	8	6,128	observed
1993	5	8,700	observed
1994	10	5,452	observed
1995	no value	no value	not covered
1996	6	7,971	observed
1997	8	6,618	observed
1998	no value	no value	not covered
1999	no value	no value	not covered
2000	6	9,112	observed
2001	no value	no value	not covered
2002	10	6,522	observed
2003	no value	no value	not covered
2004	9	7,536	observed
2005	8	8,299	observed
2006	8	8,732	observed
2007	6	10,921	observed
2008	6	11,037	observed
2009	5	12,491	observed
2010	6	10,766	observed
2011	12	6,578	observed
2012	10	7,559	observed
2013	9	8,118	observed
2014	no value	no value	not covered
2015	6	10,644	observed
2016	8	8,816	observed
2017	11	7,095	observed
2018	14	6,036	observed
2019	13	6,406	observed
2020	8	8,739	observed
2021	19	4,936	observed
2022	16	5,633	observed
2023	5	12,239	observed
2024	12	6,832	observed
2025	21	4,707	observed

About this dataset and its counting rules

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: US national Social Security card applications by name, sex and birth year; not a complete birth registry, especially before 1937.
Rounding: Integer application counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: Only names with at least 5 occurrences in a year and sex are included. Missing observations are not zeros.
Ranking: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips. The mirror's derived rank column is not used.

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC0-1.0

Read our methodology

History

Historical scholarship

Passages quoted verbatim from public-domain reference works. They reflect the scholarship of their time, not current consensus, and may use obsolete spellings.

1884From the archives
Clovis— “holy fame”
The husband of Clotilda was known to his own fierce Franks as Hluodowig, or famous war, or consecration; but when his success after his prayer to the God of Hluodhild had brought him to abjure his Teuton gods, and receive baptism from St. Remi, the pope accepted the only orthodox sovereign of Europe as most Christian king and eldest son of the Church by the appellation of Chlodovisus, or Clovis, the retranslation into French.
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part VI, Chapter V (The Karling Romances), Section VIII (Louis) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)

Notable bearers (sourced)

People on Wikidata whose recorded given name is this item (not necessarily their first name), ordered by number of Wikipedia articles. Their names may use a different spelling.

Clovis I (466–511) — first king of the Franks (c. 466-511) source
Clovis II (635–657) — King of Neustria and Burgundy source
Clovis IV (677–695) — King of the Franks source
Clovis III (670–676) — King of Austrasia source
Clovis Cornillac (born 1968) — French actor and film director source

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms5

Wikidata Q16275220CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: ClovisCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: ClovisCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: ClovisCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: ClovisCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Pronunciation recordingsAudio credits and individual recording licences2

Wikimedia Commons: File:LL-Q150 (fra)-Lepticed7-Clovis.wavCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wikimedia Commons: File:LL-Q150 (fra)-Mecanautes-Clovis.wavCC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Historical referencesOriginal texts and their publication details1

Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part VI, Chapter V (The Karling Romances), Section VIII (Louis)Public domain (Project Gutenberg) · rev. 2023-03-30 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Official statisticsPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates5

SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Switzerland — published first names of newborns, 2000–2025
Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Switzerland · opendata.swiss OPEN-BY (commercial and non-commercial reuse with source attribution) · retrieved 2026-10-15
Spain — first names of residents, census snapshot 2025-01-01
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Spain · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017
Attorney-General's Department, South Australia (via data.sa.gov.au) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

A story to pass on.

About Clovis

Etymology in the sources

Where Clovis is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Historical scholarship

Notable bearers (sourced)

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

A story to pass on.

About Clovis

Etymology in the sources

Where Clovis is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Historical scholarship

Notable bearers (sourced)

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page