Cleola
Cleola was last recorded in 1976, when 6 babies were given it; 1,196 Americans have been recorded with it between 1896 and 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cleola by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cleola?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #8,350, in 1976; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
48 babies in 1925, the peak
Cleola peaked in 1925, when 48 girls were given it, #1,103 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 6 | #8,350 | 4.1 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,745 | 3.0 |
| 1963 | 6 | #5,999 | 3.1 |
| 1962 | 5 | #6,732 | 2.5 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,261 | 3.5 |
| 1958 | 7 | #4,985 | 3.5 |
| 1957 | 10 | #3,971 | 4.9 |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,218 | 4.5 |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,121 | 4.6 |
| 1954 | 12 | #3,352 | 6.2 |
Every recorded year (65)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1953 | 10 | #3,742 | 5.3 |
| 1952 | 13 | #3,061 | 7.0 |
| 1951 | 13 | #2,961 | 7.2 |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,464 | 5.8 |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,751 | 8.2 |
| 1948 | 16 | #2,507 | 9.4 |
| 1947 | 21 | #2,153 | 11.8 |
| 1946 | 14 | #2,630 | 8.9 |
| 1945 | 20 | #1,885 | 15.3 |
| 1944 | 22 | #1,816 | 16.6 |
| 1943 | 20 | #1,957 | 14.3 |
| 1942 | 14 | #2,438 | 10.4 |
| 1941 | 15 | #2,199 | 12.4 |
| 1940 | 20 | #1,800 | 17.5 |
| 1939 | 18 | #1,893 | 16.4 |
| 1938 | 15 | #2,131 | 13.6 |
| 1937 | 22 | #1,644 | 20.7 |
| 1936 | 24 | #1,511 | 23.1 |
| 1935 | 22 | #1,618 | 21.0 |
| 1934 | 29 | #1,349 | 27.8 |
| 1933 | 23 | #1,561 | 22.8 |
| 1932 | 21 | #1,699 | 19.7 |
| 1931 | 26 | #1,463 | 24.4 |
| 1930 | 21 | #1,762 | 18.7 |
| 1929 | 23 | #1,652 | 20.6 |
| 1928 | 34 | #1,315 | 29.5 |
| 1927 | 24 | #1,734 | 20.1 |
| 1926 | 37 | #1,282 | 31.2 |
| 1925 | 48 | #1,103 | 39.4 |
| 1924 | 41 | #1,248 | 32.8 |
| 1923 | 29 | #1,530 | 24.0 |
| 1922 | 28 | #1,582 | 23.3 |
| 1921 | 35 | #1,345 | 28.4 |
| 1920 | 23 | #1,761 | 19.2 |
| 1919 | 41 | #1,159 | 36.3 |
| 1918 | 29 | #1,457 | 25.1 |
| 1917 | 34 | #1,244 | 31.4 |
| 1916 | 24 | #1,542 | 23.0 |
| 1915 | 35 | #1,154 | 35.6 |
| 1914 | 22 | #1,351 | 28.9 |
| 1913 | 23 | #1,155 | 36.8 |
| 1912 | 22 | #1,124 | 39.4 |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,250 | 14.3 |
| 1910 | 10 | #1,541 | 25.2 |
| 1909 | 17 | #994 | 49.0 |
| 1908 | 16 | #1,017 | 47.9 |
| 1907 | 13 | #1,102 | 40.8 |
| 1906 | 12 | #1,110 | 40.6 |
| 1904 | 10 | #1,184 | 36.3 |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,639 | 22.7 |
| 1901 | 7 | #1,367 | 29.2 |
| 1900 | 8 | #1,456 | 26.7 |
| 1898 | 7 | #1,395 | 27.1 |
| 1897 | 7 | #1,286 | 29.9 |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,445 | 25.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Cleola a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cleola has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 65 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cleola: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cleola, and how old are they?
An estimated 249 Americans named Cleola and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (21% of everyone recorded); the median is 79 years old and half are between 72 and 85. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 294 people named Cleola (294 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 354 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 51,159 babies since 1880, Cleola is the third most given (2.3% of them). In 2025 none of their 554 babies recorded by SSA was a Cleola (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Cleola
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 Cleola and names like it
- Compare Cleola and CleoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sCleola peaked in 1925.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cleola since 1910.
- The top names of 1925The year the most babies were named Cleola.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Cleola alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.