Cleta
Cleta is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 549th, in 1935.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1935136 births
- Best rank
- #549in 1935
- Since 1885
- 4,013people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,013 girls have been named Cleta in the United States since 1885, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1935, with 136 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 136 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1932, and the 1930s alone account for 25%. It has spent 41 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Cleta | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 15 | |
| 1890s | 67 | |
| 1900s | 158 | |
| 1910s | 626 | |
| 1920s | 890 | |
| 1930s | 988 | |
| 1940s | 617 | |
| 1950s | 436 | |
| 1960s | 140 | |
| 1970s | 69 | |
| 1980s | 7 |
In 1935, its biggest year
Cleta was the 549th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1935 were Mary, Shirley, Barbara, Betty and Patricia. See all of 1935.
Names that rose and fell with Cleta
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Mernapeak 1930
- Bernardinepeak 1925
- Verlapeak 1922
- Romainepeak 1928
- Rethapeak 1924
- Pearlinepeak 1927
- Ardellpeak 1922
- Veltapeak 1927
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.