Joretta
Joretta was last recorded in 1972, when 8 babies were given it; 1,033 Americans have been recorded with it between 1930 and 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Joretta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Joretta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #6,202, in 1972; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
194 babies in 1931, the peak
Joretta peaked in 1931, when 194 girls were given it, #464 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | 8 | #6,202 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,260 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,575 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 13 | #4,047 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,567 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 13 | #3,740 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 8 | #5,046 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 13 | #3,633 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 16 | #3,300 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,684 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | 7 | #5,530 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 16 | #3,246 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 11 | #4,027 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,272 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 16 | #3,019 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 17 | #2,870 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 21 | #2,494 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 21 | #2,434 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 25 | #2,148 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 21 | #2,329 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 20 | #2,364 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 24 | #2,036 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 20 | #2,214 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,746 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 12 | #3,052 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,543 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 21 | #2,052 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,671 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 14 | #2,456 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 10 | #3,148 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 21 | #1,887 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 13 | #2,464 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 29 | #1,424 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 20 | #1,762 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 34 | #1,255 | 0.03 |
| 1937 | 40 | #1,137 | 0.04 |
| 1936 | 26 | #1,461 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 34 | #1,234 | 0.03 |
| 1934 | 37 | #1,178 | 0.04 |
| 1933 | 56 | #909 | 0.06 |
| 1932 | 82 | #746 | 0.08 |
| 1931 | 194 | #464 | 0.18 |
| 1930 | 33 | #1,334 | 0.03 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Joretta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Joretta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Joretta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Joretta, and how old are they?
An estimated 447 Americans named Joretta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (43% of everyone recorded); the median is 74 years old and half are between 65 and 85. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 640 people named Joretta (636 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 598 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,140 babies since 1880, Joretta is the most given (91% 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 Joretta
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 Joretta and names like it
- Compare Joretta and JoritaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sJoretta peaked in 1931.
- Indiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Joretta since 1910.
- The top names of 1931The year the most babies were named Joretta.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Joretta alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with JMost given first.