THE MEANING & THE CONTEXT
The story behind Clifford
Clifford is recorded as a male given name in Cebuano. The source gives a linguistic connection through English, specifically the form Clifford.
Pronunciation & syllables
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Origin and name formation
Language-specific accounts from the dictionary. A shared spelling can have more than one history.
CebuanoEtymology & source
From English Clifford, from Old English.
a male given name from English
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EnglishEtymology & source
From Old English clif (“cliff”) + ford (“ford”), a dweller at the ford by the steep bank.
A male given name transferred from the surname.
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People with the name Clifford
Public figures and other documented namesakes linked by an explicit given-name claim. This is a selection of records, not a popularity ranking.
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Clifford Pusing
The record establishes the name association, not the person’s intended meaning, pronunciation or ancestry. Descriptions are attributed to Wikidata contributors (CC0).
Use in Philippine-linked records
Public-record transcription
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eligible source records · 2001
This spelling is reported in an openly licensed transcription of elected-candidate records. This is a record count, not a birth count or national popularity measure.
OpenHalalan / COMELEC ↗Wikidata
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distinct person records with an explicit given-name claim
Community-edited coverage, not a census or birth registry. Examples: Clifford Pusing
PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Clifford in the birth records
Exact spelling, stated year, published top-ten tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Available publications: 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. No 2021 count is inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Similar names to Clifford
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Cliff♂Name formation documented in dictionary sources
- Clinton♂Name formation documented in dictionary sources
- Cloyd♂Name formation documented in dictionary sources
- Ford♂Name formation documented in dictionary sources
- Lord♂Given name documented in Philippine-linked records; lexical meaning not established here
- Melford·Recorded Philippine given-name form
- Stanford♂Name formation documented in dictionary sources
- Claire♀Name formation documented in dictionary sources
What rhymes with Clifford?
No dictionary-confirmed rhyme match is available for this spelling in the current catalogue.
Explore Clifford further
Follow the sources
- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
Source-reported given-name form in a row with a separate explicit middle initial; ODbL-1.0.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- Wikidata given-name item Q16542374 — Clifford (opens in a new tab)
Given-name identity, native labels, language associations and explicit class where present; not lexical meaning or population frequency.
- Wikidata — Clifford Pusing (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q16542374 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Wiktionary contributors — Clifford (Cebuano) (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name sense and separately attributed etymology; no birth-frequency claim.
- Wiktionary contributors — Clifford (English) (opens in a new tab)
Language-specific given-name etymology; shared spelling does not prove every bearer has this origin.