Cletis
Cletis 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
- 192444 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1904
- 1,762people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,603 boys have been named Cletis in the United States since 1904, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1924, with 44 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 44 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1937, and the 1920s alone account for 22%.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 159 girls have also been given it, 9.0% of the total.
By decade
In 1924, its biggest year
Cletis was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1924 were Robert, John, William, James and Charles. See all of 1924.
Names that rose and fell with Cletis
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Thurmonpeak 1930
- Gordanpeak 1930
- Rodmanpeak 1928
- Wilburtpeak 1920
- Gordenpeak 1922
- Thermanpeak 1919
- Hiawathapeak 1934
- Beaufordpeak 1934
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.