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Cleotha

boys’ name · 72%girls’ name · 28%FadedCompare

Cleotha 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
194924 births
Best rank
never in the top 1,000
Since 1919
1,042people given the name
Babies named Cleotha, by year of birthboysgirls
0613192518801900192019401960198020002020

The story in the numbers

750 boys have been named Cleotha in the United States since 1919, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1949, with 24 births.

The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 24 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1950, and the 1950s alone account for 22%.

Cleotha is used for both sexes: 28% of its bearers are girls (292), most of them born around 1933.

By decade

Decadeboys named Cleotha
1910s9
1920s85
1930s118
1940s155
1950s166
1960s110
1970s63
1980s34
1990s10

In 1949, its biggest year

Cleotha was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1949 were James, Robert, John, William and Michael. See all of 1949.

Names that rose and fell with Cleotha

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.