Cleotis
Cleotis was last recorded in 1986, when 6 babies were given it; 319 Americans have been recorded with it between 1916 and 1986 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cleotis by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cleotis?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #6,071, in 1986; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
15 babies in 1957, the peak
Cleotis peaked in 1957, when 15 boys were given it, #2,107 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 6 | #6,071 | 3.3 |
| 1984 | 6 | #5,698 | 3.3 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,113 | 3.9 |
| 1978 | 5 | #5,961 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,000 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,033 | 3.8 |
| 1975 | 6 | #4,903 | 3.8 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,030 | 2.8 |
| 1968 | 6 | #3,755 | 3.5 |
| 1964 | 7 | #3,336 | 3.5 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 6 | #3,710 | 3.0 |
| 1962 | 6 | #3,696 | 2.9 |
| 1961 | 7 | #3,414 | 3.3 |
| 1960 | 6 | #3,728 | 2.8 |
| 1959 | 8 | #3,077 | 3.7 |
| 1958 | 8 | #3,071 | 3.8 |
| 1957 | 15 | #2,107 | 7.0 |
| 1956 | 14 | #2,180 | 6.6 |
| 1955 | 6 | #3,564 | 2.9 |
| 1954 | 9 | #2,777 | 4.4 |
| 1953 | 6 | #3,491 | 3.0 |
| 1952 | 8 | #2,912 | 4.1 |
| 1951 | 5 | #3,808 | 2.7 |
| 1950 | 10 | #2,461 | 5.6 |
| 1949 | 9 | #2,642 | 5.1 |
| 1948 | 5 | #3,770 | 2.8 |
| 1947 | 11 | #2,388 | 6.0 |
| 1946 | 6 | #3,233 | 3.7 |
| 1945 | 10 | #2,274 | 7.4 |
| 1942 | 6 | #3,276 | 4.3 |
| 1941 | 9 | #2,513 | 7.3 |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,316 | 9.0 |
| 1938 | 8 | #2,683 | 7.2 |
| 1936 | 5 | #3,638 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,421 | 9.7 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,058 | 7.1 |
| 1932 | 8 | #2,890 | 7.7 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,096 | 4.6 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,177 | 7.2 |
| 1923 | 5 | #4,343 | 4.6 |
| 1920 | 5 | #4,418 | 4.7 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,274 | 5.1 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,153 | 7.9 |
| 1916 | 6 | #3,577 | 6.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Cleotis a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cleotis has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cleotis: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cleotis, and how old are they?
An estimated 164 Americans named Cleotis and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (51% of everyone recorded); the median is 68 years old and half are between 55 and 75. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 198 people named Cleotis (13 women and girls, 185 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 192 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
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 5 names spelled alike, given to 10,983 babies since 1880, Cleotis is the fourth most given (2.9% of them).
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 Cleotis
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 Cleotis and names like it
- Compare Cleotis and CletusBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sCleotis peaked in 1957.
- Arkansas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cleotis since 1910.
- The top names of 1957The year the most babies were named Cleotis.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Cleotis alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.