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 [ 1 syll. cly-de, cl-yde ] The girl name Clyde is also used as a boy name, with the latter form being far more popular. It is pronounced KLAYD KEY. Clyde's origin is Scottish, and its use, English. The meaning of Clyde is 'washer'. It represents the transferred use of the geographic name as a given name. See Clyde for more info. Clyde is uncommon as a baby girl name. At the modest height of its usage in 1901, 0.024% of baby girls were named Clyde. It was #376 in rank then. The baby name has markedly slipped in popularity since then, and is currently used only on an infrequent scale. Within all girl names in its family, Clyde was nevertheless the most popular in 2008. Clyde has in the last century been primarily given to boys. In 1932, 48 times more boys than girls were given the name Clyde. Baby names that sound like Clyde include the English and French Claude, the English Cloette, the English Claudee, the English and French Claudette, the English Claudi, the English Claudie, the Spanish Cleta, the Irish Clodagh, the Greek Clytie, the English and French Colette, the English Collete, the English Collett, the English and French Collette, the Scandinavian Kelda, the Urdu Khaleda, the Arabic Khaloud, the Arabic Khuloud, the Czech Klaudie, the English Kolette, and the Greek and Italian Calida. KEY: Pronunciation for Clyde: K as in "key (K.IY)" ; L as in "lee (L.IY)" ; AY as in "hide (HH.AY.D)" ; D as in "dee (D.IY)"   |
