Holding steady.
Popularity of Clytee since 1900
Babies named Clytee per year in U.S. Social Security records. Raw births topped out in 1926, but relative to how few babies were recorded back then, Clytee's real moment was 1900.
Data table (by decade)
| Decade | Girls |
|---|---|
| 1900s | 5 |
| 1910s | 41 |
| 1920s | 78 |
| 1930s | 45 |
| 1940s | 6 |
| 1950s | 0 |
| 1960s | 0 |
| 1970s | 0 |
| 1980s | 0 |
| 1990s | 0 |
| 2000s | 0 |
| 2010s | 0 |
| 2020s | 0 |
Meaning & origin
Clytee is an exceedingly rare name that first appeared in U.S. birth records in the year 1900, with no recorded usage since that peak year. It never achieved a national rank, and the Social Security Administration data shows a one-in-N figure that is effectively zero for recent years. The trajectory of the name is flat, indicating it has never been in widespread use. Clytee was likely a spontaneous coinage or a variant of the more familiar Clytie, which itself comes from Greek mythology. In the absence of any documented popularity, the name remains a curiosity of the early 1900s naming landscape, reflecting a period when inventive respellings and feminizations of established names were occasionally attempted.
Clytee appears to be a modern coinage, likely a respelling of Clytie or a feminine adaptation of Clyde. The name was first recorded in the United States in 1900, though it was never common. Its usage has remained vanishingly rare in the decades since.
Nicknames & variants
Variants: Clytie
Sibling names for Clytee
Names that share Clytee's style, for a brother or sister.
