Cletus
Cletus is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 6 births. Its best rank was 391st, in 1922.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 60.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1922233 births
- Best rank
- #391in 1922
- Since 1886
- 7,698people given the name
The story in the numbers
7,426 boys have been named Cletus in the United States since 1886, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1922, with 233 births.
The name has all but left use: 6 births in 2024, against 233 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1932, and the 1920s alone account for 26%. It has spent 71 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 272 girls have also been given it, 3.5% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Cletus | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 10 | |
| 1890s | 80 | |
| 1900s | 185 | |
| 1910s | 1,190 | |
| 1920s | 1,902 | |
| 1930s | 1,303 | |
| 1940s | 878 | |
| 1950s | 661 | |
| 1960s | 536 | |
| 1970s | 251 | |
| 1980s | 189 | |
| 1990s | 85 | |
| 2000s | 63 | |
| 2010s | 61 | |
| 2020s | 32 |
In 1922, its biggest year
Cletus was the 391st most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1922 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1922.
Names that rose and fell with Cletus
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Haroldpeak 1924
- Arvelpeak 1921
- Maynardpeak 1922
- Foypeak 1921
- Bufordpeak 1921
- Odispeak 1921
- Harlandpeak 1922
- Merlepeak 1925
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.