Cledith — unisex name
240 babies named Cledith in U.S. Social Security records since 1913, with the highest year being 1915. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
37% of everyone ever named Cledith was born in this single decade.
20 babies were named Cledith in 1915 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Cledith
The Social Security Administration has registered 240 babies named Cledith between 1913 and 1946, spanning 34 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Cledith currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1946. The name reached its historical peak in 1915, when 20 babies received it in a single year. Cledith is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 207 additional births since 1917.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Cledith performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 89 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Cledith shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Kentucky, which accounts for 16 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Missouri. In total, SSA state-level files list Cledith in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Cledith in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 240 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Cledith at a glance
Last recorded 1946Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Cledith popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1946–1913
- Peak year (1915)
- 20
- Annual births at peak — across 34 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1946.
240 total births across 34 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1915 with 20 births in a single year.
Cledith popularity over time — boys
207 total births recorded since 1917 (Cledith as boys' name)
Unisex use is substantial
The boys' variant of Cledith accounts for 46% of total recorded use across both genders.
Cledith by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1920s
- 89 births that decade — 37% of Cledith's all-time total
Cledith decade highlights
- Peak decade 89 births
- Runner-up 72 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1920s was Cledith's strongest decade
89 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 37% of all-time use.
Cledith by state
Where Cledith concentrates geographically — total births since 1913
Top 5 states
- Kentucky 6.7% of nationwide
- Missouri 2.1% of nationwide
Recorded in 2 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Kentucky accounts for 6.7% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1913–1946 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.