Clever comes from the Modern American tradition, meaning Smart or intelligent..
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How popular is Clever?
2020peak year
The name Clever reached its peak in 2020, with 12 registrations (ranked #6704). It had only entered records 17 years earlier, in 2003. Since the peak, the name has eased to well outside the top 1,000 (around #10876) today, averaging about 7 new babies per year. Clever has been trending upward in recent years. Across all years on record, approximately 126 American babies have carried this name.
Year-by-year registrations1880–2024 · U.S. Social Security data
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