Claude
Fewer than 70 people in Poland carry it, and almost all of them are men. A French name from Latin, where it meant "lame" or "limping".
Claude Pronunciation
Claude is pronounced tslah-OO-de (/t͡slaˈudɛ/).
What Claude means
Where Claude comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Claude comes from Latin, from the Roman family name Claudius. The root is claudus, which means lame or limping. Rome had a whole clan under that name, the gens Claudia. One of them became emperor. Suetonius wrote that Claudius dragged one foot and walked with a weak knee.
The French took the name and kept it. Claude Monet signed his paintings with it. Claude Debussy signed his scores. In French it serves men and women alike, and the grounding here lists no separate diminutive or variant.
The meaning, lame, sits oddly on a name carried by painters and composers. A limp gave the family its label long ago. Later bearers limped or walked fine; the name held the word either way. On a Polish class register now, Claude reads as foreign, French before Latin. Underneath stays claudus, lame.
How many people are named Claude
1 in 318600 men in Poland is named Claude. 69 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4332 among male names.
Claude as a middle name
Claude is a first name for 69 men in Poland and a middle name for another 192, a 26/74 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 490th, between Sambor (193) and Erich (192).
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#488 Matthias193
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#489 Sambor193
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#490 Claude192
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#491 Erich192
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#492 Raymond192