Cleotha — boys' name

What the Data Says About Cleotha

The Social Security Administration has registered 750 babies named Cleotha between 1919 and 1992, spanning 74 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Cleotha currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1992. The name reached its historical peak in 1949, when 24 babies received it in a single year. Cleotha is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 292 additional births since 1917.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Cleotha performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 166 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Cleotha shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Mississippi, which accounts for 323 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Cleotha in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Cleotha 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 750 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.