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Cleola

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Cleola is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 994th, in 1909.

Rank in 2024
fewer than 5 births
Births in 2024
0not in the data
Peak year
192548 births
Best rank
#994in 1909
Since 1896
1,196people given the name
Babies named Cleola, by year of birthgirls
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The story in the numbers

1,196 girls have been named Cleola in the United States since 1896, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1925, with 48 births.

The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 48 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1927, and the 1920s alone account for 27%. It has spent 1 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadegirls named Cleola
1890s20
1900s89
1910s246
1920s322
1930s221
1940s176
1950s93
1960s23
1970s6

In 1925, its biggest year

Cleola was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1925 were Mary, Dorothy, Betty, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1925.

Names that rose and fell with Cleola

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.