Cleotha
Cleotha was last recorded in 1992, when 5 babies were given it; 1,042 Americans have been recorded with it between 1917 and 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cleotha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cleotha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #8,629, in 1992; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
35 babies in 1950, the peak
Cleotha peaked in 1950, when 35 babies were given it (23 boys, #1,542 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | under 5 | 5 | #8,629 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 5 | #8,404 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 5 | #6,907 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 7 | #5,245 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 5 | #6,407 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 7 | #5,112 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 5 | #6,452 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 5 | #6,414 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 5 | #6,208 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 5 | #5,960 |
Every recorded year (71)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | under 5 | 7 | #4,677 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 6 | #5,032 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 6 | #4,902 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 5 | #5,350 | |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,663 | 7 | #4,135 |
| 1972 | under 5 | 6 | #4,528 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 11 | #2,999 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 5 | #4,826 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 5 | #4,499 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 13 | #2,339 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 13 | #2,258 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 7 | #3,294 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 9 | #2,822 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 6 | #3,669 | |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,768 | 12 | #2,435 |
| 1962 | under 5 | 17 | #1,979 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 14 | #2,255 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 14 | #2,225 | |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,666 | 15 | #2,130 |
| 1958 | under 5 | 22 | #1,689 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 9 | #2,859 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 15 | #2,101 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 20 | #1,735 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 16 | #1,968 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 13 | #2,203 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 18 | #1,813 | |
| 1951 | under 5 | 15 | #1,990 | |
| 1950 | 12 | #3,087 | 23 | #1,542 |
| 1949 | 8 | #3,948 | 24 | #1,513 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,380 | 9 | #2,640 |
| 1947 | under 5 | 21 | #1,658 | |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,066 | 8 | #2,734 |
| 1945 | under 5 | 17 | #1,638 | |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,683 | 16 | #1,751 |
| 1943 | 5 | #4,801 | 18 | #1,710 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,803 | 14 | #1,963 |
| 1941 | 9 | #3,056 | 17 | #1,702 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,767 | 11 | #2,206 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,489 | 9 | #2,484 |
| 1938 | 8 | #3,235 | 14 | #1,914 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,504 | 11 | #2,225 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,303 | 9 | #2,483 |
| 1935 | 8 | #3,196 | 14 | #1,948 |
| 1934 | 13 | #2,307 | 15 | #1,874 |
| 1933 | 15 | #2,072 | 13 | #2,007 |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,672 | 13 | #2,118 |
| 1931 | 6 | #3,945 | 13 | #2,119 |
| 1930 | 11 | #2,716 | 7 | #3,346 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,735 | 13 | #2,226 |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,478 | under 5 | |
| 1927 | 9 | #3,332 | 9 | #2,948 |
| 1926 | 9 | #3,299 | 10 | #2,753 |
| 1925 | 13 | #2,638 | 6 | #3,820 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,558 | 10 | #2,846 |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,415 | 9 | #2,981 |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,636 | 12 | #2,515 |
| 1921 | 13 | #2,656 | 8 | #3,263 |
| 1920 | 11 | #2,941 | 8 | #3,263 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,348 | 9 | #2,915 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,961 | under 5 | |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,403 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Cleotha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,042 Americans recorded as Cleotha, 28% are girls and 72% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Cleotha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cleotha, and how old are they?
An estimated 450 Americans named Cleotha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (43% of everyone recorded); the median is 68 years old and half are between 58 and 78. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 429 people named Cleotha (112 women and girls, 317 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 555 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% 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).
Where are babies named Cleotha born?
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 355 | not ranked | 18.5× |
Where Cleotha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Cleotha is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1917 it was given 18.5 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 boys’ 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 Cleotha 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 Cleotha
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 Cleotha and names like it
- Compare Cleotha and VerlynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sCleotha peaked in 1950.
- Mississippi’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cleotha since 1910.
- The top names of 1950The year the most babies were named Cleotha.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Cleotha alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.