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Baby name
Clifton
Boy
Origin of the name
Clifton was first an English place name, “settlement on a cliff.”
Classic name
70,249births since 1880
1970sgeneration
No. 186rank at its peak, in 1975
Where babies named Clifton are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Clifton is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Clifton is most common in Mississippi (4.9 times), Louisiana (3.4) and North Carolina (3.2), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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