Girls' name · since 1968
Koretta
14 babies named Koretta in U.S. Social Security records since 1968, with the highest year being 1968. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 14
- total births
- 1968–1971
- years on record
- 1960s
- peak decade
- 50%
- born in that decade
Koretta is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 14 have been recorded since 1968.
Koretta has 14 recorded births among girls since 1968, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1960s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1968 to 1971.
- 14 total births
- 1968–1971 years on record
- 1960s peak decade
- 50% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Koretta's 14 recorded births place it above 30% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Koretta's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Koretta's SSA record in two at 1971 and the more recent half accounts for 50% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 50%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1968, with only 7 births recorded.
Koretta popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1968–1971
- Peak year (1968)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 4 years of records
Koretta by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1960s was Koretta's strongest decade.
7 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 50% of all-time use.
Koretta births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1960s
1960s
7 births
- 1970s
1970s
7 births
What this shows Peak: 1960s at 7 births (50% of all-time use).
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- Koretta's usage has stayed within range of its 1960s decade-level peak (7 total births) through the 1970s (7) -- a comparatively stable name, not a fading trend.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1968–1971 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Koretta: Baby Name Since 1968 - 14 Births, Peak 1968." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/koretta. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Koretta draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.