Cloretta — girls' name
23 babies named Cloretta in U.S. Social Security records since 1950, with the highest year being 1953. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
57% of everyone ever named Cloretta was born in this single decade.
8 babies were named Cloretta in 1953 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Cloretta
The Social Security Administration has registered 23 babies named Cloretta between 1950 and 1978, spanning 29 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Cloretta currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1978. The name reached its historical peak in 1953, when 8 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Cloretta performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 13 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Cloretta shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Cloretta 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 23 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.
Cloretta at a glance
Last recorded 1978Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Cloretta popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1978–1950
- Peak year (1953)
- 8
- Annual births at peak — across 29 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1978.
23 total births across 29 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1953 with 8 births in a single year.
Cloretta by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1950s
- 13 births that decade — 57% of Cloretta's all-time total
Cloretta decade highlights
- Peak decade 13 births
- Runner-up 5 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1950s was Cloretta's strongest decade
13 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 57% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1950–1978 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.