Cleora
Cleora was last recorded in 1982, when 5 babies were given it; 1,712 Americans have been recorded with it between 1883 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 Cleora by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Cleora mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Cleora is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Cleora?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,809, in 1982; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
68 babies in 1918, the peak
Cleora peaked in 1918, when 68 girls were given it, #869 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 5 | #10,809 | 3.0 |
| 1962 | 6 | #5,970 | 3.1 |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,723 | 2.5 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,413 | 2.5 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,596 | 3.9 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,401 | 3.0 |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,123 | 4.6 |
| 1954 | 15 | #2,905 | 7.7 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,295 | 4.3 |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,187 | 4.3 |
Every recorded year (74)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | 13 | #2,963 | 7.2 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,386 | 4.1 |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,769 | 3.5 |
| 1947 | 14 | #2,787 | 7.9 |
| 1946 | 12 | #2,902 | 7.6 |
| 1945 | 13 | #2,483 | 9.9 |
| 1944 | 17 | #2,107 | 12.8 |
| 1943 | 16 | #2,270 | 11.5 |
| 1942 | 24 | #1,711 | 17.8 |
| 1941 | 14 | #2,282 | 11.6 |
| 1940 | 18 | #1,906 | 15.7 |
| 1939 | 17 | #1,957 | 15.5 |
| 1938 | 20 | #1,764 | 18.1 |
| 1937 | 13 | #2,341 | 12.2 |
| 1936 | 30 | #1,326 | 28.8 |
| 1935 | 21 | #1,674 | 20.0 |
| 1934 | 32 | #1,266 | 30.6 |
| 1933 | 21 | #1,662 | 20.8 |
| 1932 | 28 | #1,426 | 26.2 |
| 1931 | 31 | #1,317 | 29.1 |
| 1930 | 43 | #1,131 | 38.2 |
| 1929 | 42 | #1,138 | 37.6 |
| 1928 | 30 | #1,433 | 26.0 |
| 1927 | 35 | #1,365 | 29.4 |
| 1926 | 34 | #1,360 | 28.7 |
| 1925 | 68 | #896 | 55.9 |
| 1924 | 55 | #1,048 | 44.0 |
| 1923 | 62 | #931 | 51.4 |
| 1922 | 51 | #1,063 | 42.5 |
| 1921 | 58 | #972 | 47.0 |
| 1920 | 60 | #941 | 50.1 |
| 1919 | 55 | #956 | 48.7 |
| 1918 | 68 | #869 | 58.7 |
| 1917 | 64 | #861 | 59.2 |
| 1916 | 62 | #867 | 59.4 |
| 1915 | 56 | #877 | 56.9 |
| 1914 | 46 | #866 | 60.4 |
| 1913 | 26 | #1,072 | 41.6 |
| 1912 | 38 | #812 | 68.1 |
| 1911 | 19 | #1,010 | 45.4 |
| 1910 | 17 | #1,078 | 42.9 |
| 1909 | 23 | #849 | 66.2 |
| 1908 | 17 | #972 | 50.9 |
| 1907 | 19 | #877 | 59.6 |
| 1906 | 18 | #877 | 61.0 |
| 1905 | 22 | #782 | 75.4 |
| 1904 | 17 | #885 | 61.7 |
| 1903 | 18 | #814 | 68.7 |
| 1902 | 15 | #911 | 56.8 |
| 1901 | 18 | #773 | 75.2 |
| 1900 | 10 | #1,240 | 33.4 |
| 1899 | 10 | #1,041 | 42.9 |
| 1898 | 7 | #1,396 | 27.1 |
| 1897 | 17 | #765 | 72.6 |
| 1896 | 7 | #1,314 | 29.4 |
| 1895 | 14 | #868 | 59.9 |
| 1893 | 6 | #1,309 | 28.2 |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,366 | 27.0 |
| 1888 | 7 | #1,055 | 39.2 |
| 1887 | 5 | #1,174 | 34.3 |
| 1886 | 5 | #1,137 | 34.6 |
| 1885 | 8 | #797 | 60.1 |
| 1884 | 5 | #1,056 | 38.8 |
| 1883 | 8 | #706 | 71.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Cleora a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cleora has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 74 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cleora: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cleora, and how old are they?
An estimated 206 Americans named Cleora and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (12% of everyone recorded); the median is 81 years old and half are between 73 and 88. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 385 people named Cleora (379 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 323 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 that rose and fell in the same decades as Cleora
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 Cleora and names like it
- Compare Cleora and AlvertaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sCleora peaked in 1918.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cleora since 1910.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Cleora.
- The names of the Silent GenerationMost people named Cleora alive today were born 1928-1945.
- Names starting with CMost given first.