Name meaning & stats
Clifford
Clifford means “ford by a cliff”. 105,340 US babies since 1940, peak 1952.
What it means
“ford by a cliff”
Well documented
In US birth records
Peak year: 1952
105,340 US babies were named Clifford between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Clifford (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Name twins (peaked around 1952)