Cleda
Cleda is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 901st, in 1903.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191752 births
- Best rank
- #901in 1903
- Since 1888
- 1,392people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,392 girls have been named Cleda in the United States since 1888, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1917, with 52 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 52 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1925, and the 1920s alone account for 26%. It has spent 3 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1917, its biggest year
Cleda was the 965th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1917 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1917.
Names that rose and fell with Cleda
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Leomapeak 1920
- Alleanpeak 1924
- Veolapeak 1926
- Velmapeak 1921
- Corenepeak 1922
- Meldapeak 1925
- Myrtispeak 1921
- Jewellpeak 1920
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.