Claretha
Claretha is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 194841 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1918
- 1,109people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,109 girls have been named Claretha in the United States since 1918, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1948, with 41 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 41 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1948, and the 1950s alone account for 27%.
By decade
In 1948, its biggest year
Claretha was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1948 were Linda, Mary, Barbara, Patricia and Susan. See all of 1948.
Names that rose and fell with Claretha
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Peggypeak 1958
- Beverlypeak 1953
- Deloispeak 1948
- Delorsepeak 1958
- Marjeanpeak 1951
- Charleanpeak 1952
- Joycepeak 1942
- Delorisepeak 1948
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.