Baby name
FADING BOY · OLD ENGLISH
🇮🇪 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 Clifford
/CLIF · ord/
Meaning
“Ford at a cliff”
Ford at a cliff
Nicknames
cliff · cliffy · ford
How it ages.
Clifford carries English place-name gravitas and intellectual weight across all life stages.
The cultural moment.
Declining in new registrations; more established in mid-twentieth-century English-speaking communities.