Coretta — #15348 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Coretta

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,433 babies named Coretta between 1909 and 2024, spanning 116 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Coretta currently holds the #15348 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1968, when 336 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Coretta performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 692 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Coretta shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 122 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Mississippi and Alabama. In total, SSA state-level files list Coretta in 22 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Coretta 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 2,433 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.