Laretta
Laretta was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,151 among girls’ names; 661 Americans have been recorded with it since 1909 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Laretta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Laretta?
#14,151 among girls’ names, 2025
Laretta entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #14,151 in 2025.
20 babies in 1956, the peak
Laretta peaked in 1956, when 20 girls were given it, #2,576 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 30% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,151 | 3.7 |
| 2024 | 5 | #16,612 | 3.1 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,158 | 3.3 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,710 | 2.8 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,189 | 3.2 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,070 | 4.1 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,318 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,420 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,098 | 5.4 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,610 | 5.9 |
Every recorded year (69)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 7 | #7,567 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,220 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,757 | 3.9 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,860 | 3.6 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,532 | 3.4 |
| 1968 | 9 | #4,953 | 5.5 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,751 | 4.2 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,679 | 5.3 |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,068 | 4.5 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,754 | 3.7 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,230 | 3.1 |
| 1962 | 13 | #3,678 | 6.6 |
| 1961 | 15 | #3,401 | 7.4 |
| 1960 | 11 | #4,054 | 5.4 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,474 | 4.4 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,777 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 16 | #2,985 | 7.8 |
| 1956 | 20 | #2,576 | 10.0 |
| 1955 | 7 | #4,969 | 3.6 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,472 | 4.1 |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,844 | 5.3 |
| 1952 | 16 | #2,732 | 8.6 |
| 1951 | 12 | #3,204 | 6.7 |
| 1950 | 15 | #2,720 | 8.8 |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,792 | 8.2 |
| 1948 | 17 | #2,452 | 10.0 |
| 1947 | 16 | #2,582 | 9.0 |
| 1946 | 15 | #2,544 | 9.5 |
| 1945 | 15 | #2,289 | 11.5 |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,855 | 8.3 |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,634 | 9.3 |
| 1942 | 13 | #2,605 | 9.6 |
| 1941 | 9 | #3,132 | 7.4 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,686 | 6.1 |
| 1939 | 13 | #2,357 | 11.9 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,678 | 6.3 |
| 1937 | 18 | #1,879 | 16.9 |
| 1936 | 14 | #2,207 | 13.5 |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,372 | 12.4 |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,654 | 10.5 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,988 | 6.0 |
| 1932 | 10 | #2,943 | 9.4 |
| 1931 | 11 | #2,667 | 10.3 |
| 1930 | 11 | #2,777 | 9.8 |
| 1929 | 11 | #2,836 | 9.9 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,464 | 5.2 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,226 | 4.2 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,583 | 5.1 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,232 | 5.8 |
| 1924 | 12 | #2,887 | 9.6 |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,508 | 7.5 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,410 | 4.2 |
| 1921 | 17 | #2,243 | 13.8 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,796 | 6.7 |
| 1919 | 12 | #2,731 | 10.6 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,568 | 5.2 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,957 | 4.6 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,441 | 8.0 |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,381 | 14.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Laretta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Laretta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 69 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Laretta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Laretta, and how old are they?
An estimated 360 Americans named Laretta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (54% of everyone recorded); the median is 69 years old and half are between 56 and 78. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 395 people named Laretta (395 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 408 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 15,228 babies since 1880, Laretta is the fourth most given (4.3% 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 Laretta
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 Laretta and names like it
- Compare Laretta and LaurettaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sLaretta peaked in 1956.
- The top names of 1956The year the most babies were named Laretta.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Laretta alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.