Clyde

The name derives from Scotland's River Clyde, likely from an ancient Celtic root denoting a cleansing river. Honors for Colin Campbell, created Baron Clyde in 1858, helped popularize the name across the nineteenth-century English-speaking world. American parents adopted it rapidly, establishing it on national registries decades before its 1920 peak.

A Clyde tends to be pictured leaning over an open carburetor or squinting across a gravel driveway. The name reads as rural machinery and work shirts that have survived three decades of wash cycles. With an estimated average age of sixty-one, the name spends most of its current energy in hardware aisles. The 1930s outlaw fame still shadows the vowel, but the record mostly belongs to men who kept spare fan belts.