Cleta — girls' name

What the Data Says About Cleta

The Social Security Administration has registered 4,013 babies named Cleta between 1885 and 1980, spanning 96 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Cleta currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1980. The name reached its historical peak in 1935, when 136 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Cleta performed strongest in the 1930s, accumulating 988 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Cleta shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Oklahoma, which accounts for 550 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Missouri. In total, SSA state-level files list Cleta in 16 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Cleta 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 4,013 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.