Cletis — boys' name

What the Data Says About Cletis

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,603 babies named Cletis between 1904 and 1996, spanning 93 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Cletis currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1996. The name reached its historical peak in 1924, when 44 babies received it in a single year. Cletis is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 159 additional births since 1911.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Cletis performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 356 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Cletis shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Missouri, which accounts for 84 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Kentucky and West Virginia. In total, SSA state-level files list Cletis in 9 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Cletis 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 1,603 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.