Claretta
Claretta was last recorded in 1982, when 5 babies were given it; 924 Americans have been recorded with it between 1902 and 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Claretta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Claretta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,807, in 1982; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
30 babies in 1943, the peak
Claretta peaked in 1943, when 30 girls were given it, #1,534 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 5 | #10,807 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,901 | 3.3 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,338 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,656 | 3.4 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,551 | 3.6 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,208 | 2.9 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,475 | 6.5 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,229 | 4.9 |
| 1967 | 5 | #6,967 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 6 | #5,919 | 3.5 |
Every recorded year (69)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | 10 | #4,246 | 5.7 |
| 1964 | 5 | #6,929 | 2.6 |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,059 | 5.7 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,585 | 4.6 |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,301 | 5.0 |
| 1960 | 10 | #4,226 | 4.9 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,694 | 4.0 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,235 | 4.5 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,261 | 4.4 |
| 1956 | 15 | #3,066 | 7.5 |
| 1955 | 22 | #2,344 | 11.3 |
| 1954 | 11 | #3,520 | 5.7 |
| 1953 | 24 | #2,133 | 12.8 |
| 1952 | 21 | #2,275 | 11.3 |
| 1951 | 21 | #2,188 | 11.7 |
| 1950 | 17 | #2,451 | 9.9 |
| 1949 | 22 | #2,075 | 12.9 |
| 1948 | 24 | #1,956 | 14.1 |
| 1947 | 18 | #2,366 | 10.2 |
| 1946 | 19 | #2,168 | 12.1 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,769 | 8.4 |
| 1944 | 15 | #2,306 | 11.3 |
| 1943 | 30 | #1,534 | 21.5 |
| 1942 | 21 | #1,870 | 15.5 |
| 1941 | 20 | #1,824 | 16.6 |
| 1940 | 22 | #1,695 | 19.2 |
| 1939 | 21 | #1,688 | 19.1 |
| 1938 | 14 | #2,246 | 12.7 |
| 1937 | 20 | #1,741 | 18.8 |
| 1936 | 19 | #1,751 | 18.3 |
| 1935 | 22 | #1,617 | 21.0 |
| 1934 | 17 | #1,932 | 16.3 |
| 1933 | 10 | #2,716 | 9.9 |
| 1932 | 18 | #1,886 | 16.9 |
| 1931 | 18 | #1,889 | 16.9 |
| 1930 | 13 | #2,441 | 11.5 |
| 1929 | 16 | #2,111 | 14.3 |
| 1928 | 12 | #2,643 | 10.4 |
| 1927 | 24 | #1,733 | 20.1 |
| 1926 | 17 | #2,177 | 14.3 |
| 1925 | 14 | #2,508 | 11.5 |
| 1924 | 12 | #2,839 | 9.6 |
| 1923 | 16 | #2,282 | 13.3 |
| 1922 | 17 | #2,200 | 14.2 |
| 1921 | 16 | #2,303 | 13.0 |
| 1920 | 19 | #2,027 | 15.9 |
| 1919 | 7 | #3,896 | 6.2 |
| 1918 | 20 | #1,895 | 17.3 |
| 1917 | 10 | #2,920 | 9.2 |
| 1916 | 12 | #2,520 | 11.5 |
| 1915 | 12 | #2,416 | 12.2 |
| 1914 | 10 | #2,296 | 13.1 |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,886 | 9.6 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,048 | 9.0 |
| 1911 | 7 | #1,999 | 16.7 |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,174 | 15.0 |
| 1906 | 9 | #1,342 | 30.5 |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,692 | 21.8 |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,836 | 18.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Claretta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Claretta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 69 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Claretta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Claretta, and how old are they?
An estimated 381 Americans named Claretta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (41% of everyone recorded); the median is 74 years old and half are between 65 and 81. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 454 people named Claretta (452 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 472 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,168 babies since 1880, Claretta is the second most given (43% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Claretta
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Claretta and names like it
- Compare Claretta and ClaritaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sClaretta peaked in 1943.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Claretta since 1910.
- The top names of 1943The year the most babies were named Claretta.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Claretta alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.