Cleda
Cleda was last recorded in 1965, when 6 babies were given it; 1,392 Americans have been recorded with it between 1888 and 1965 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cleda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cleda?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #5,927, in 1965; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
52 babies in 1917, the peak
Cleda peaked in 1917, when 52 girls were given it, #965 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | 6 | #5,927 | 3.4 |
| 1962 | 5 | #6,729 | 2.5 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,594 | 4.5 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,260 | 3.5 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,664 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,731 | 5.4 |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,217 | 4.5 |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,824 | 5.1 |
| 1954 | 17 | #2,710 | 8.8 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,293 | 4.3 |
Every recorded year (70)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | 6 | #5,013 | 3.2 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,557 | 2.8 |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,462 | 5.8 |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,033 | 7.0 |
| 1948 | 17 | #2,427 | 10.0 |
| 1947 | 16 | #2,548 | 9.0 |
| 1946 | 19 | #2,170 | 12.1 |
| 1945 | 15 | #2,247 | 11.5 |
| 1944 | 16 | #2,223 | 12.1 |
| 1943 | 10 | #3,078 | 7.2 |
| 1942 | 17 | #2,131 | 12.6 |
| 1941 | 20 | #1,825 | 16.6 |
| 1940 | 20 | #1,799 | 17.5 |
| 1939 | 28 | #1,404 | 25.5 |
| 1938 | 30 | #1,345 | 27.2 |
| 1937 | 20 | #1,742 | 18.8 |
| 1936 | 35 | #1,209 | 33.6 |
| 1935 | 39 | #1,121 | 37.2 |
| 1934 | 29 | #1,348 | 27.8 |
| 1933 | 20 | #1,729 | 19.8 |
| 1932 | 33 | #1,269 | 30.9 |
| 1931 | 26 | #1,462 | 24.4 |
| 1930 | 25 | #1,579 | 22.2 |
| 1929 | 27 | #1,495 | 24.2 |
| 1928 | 30 | #1,432 | 26.0 |
| 1927 | 42 | #1,197 | 35.2 |
| 1926 | 23 | #1,783 | 19.4 |
| 1925 | 45 | #1,152 | 37.0 |
| 1924 | 42 | #1,229 | 33.6 |
| 1923 | 34 | #1,354 | 28.2 |
| 1922 | 41 | #1,210 | 34.1 |
| 1921 | 40 | #1,223 | 32.4 |
| 1920 | 44 | #1,135 | 36.7 |
| 1919 | 36 | #1,275 | 31.9 |
| 1918 | 44 | #1,108 | 38.0 |
| 1917 | 52 | #965 | 48.1 |
| 1916 | 36 | #1,190 | 34.5 |
| 1915 | 37 | #1,124 | 37.6 |
| 1914 | 24 | #1,269 | 31.5 |
| 1913 | 28 | #1,022 | 44.8 |
| 1912 | 23 | #1,084 | 41.2 |
| 1911 | 16 | #1,127 | 38.2 |
| 1910 | 12 | #1,347 | 30.3 |
| 1909 | 11 | #1,304 | 31.7 |
| 1908 | 16 | #1,016 | 47.9 |
| 1907 | 15 | #995 | 47.1 |
| 1906 | 5 | #2,005 | 16.9 |
| 1905 | 12 | #1,102 | 41.1 |
| 1904 | 11 | #1,106 | 39.9 |
| 1903 | 15 | #901 | 57.3 |
| 1902 | 9 | #1,238 | 34.1 |
| 1901 | 10 | #1,078 | 41.8 |
| 1900 | 12 | #1,118 | 40.0 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,648 | 21.5 |
| 1898 | 8 | #1,279 | 30.9 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,628 | 21.0 |
| 1895 | 9 | #1,137 | 38.5 |
| 1894 | 7 | #1,256 | 31.4 |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,472 | 23.5 |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,319 | 28.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Cleda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cleda has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 70 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cleda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cleda, and how old are they?
An estimated 247 Americans named Cleda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (18% of everyone recorded); the median is 80 years old and half are between 72 and 87. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 354 people named Cleda (354 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 365 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% 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).
Where are babies named Cleda born?
The states with the most babies named Cleda are Kentucky, Illinois and Kansas, with 76% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Kentucky and Kansas are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | 177 | not ranked | 5.4× |
| Illinois | 54 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Kansas | 40 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Missouri | 21 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 21 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Oklahoma | 17 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Arkansas | 10 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Indiana | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Tennessee | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Texas | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Cleda is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Cleda is most over-represented in Kentucky: since 1910 it was given 5.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Cleda with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Cleda
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 Cleda and names like it
- Compare Cleda and AlleanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sCleda peaked in 1917.
- Kentucky’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cleda since 1910.
- The top names of 1917The year the most babies were named Cleda.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Cleda alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.