Coretta
Coretta is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 5 births. Its best rank was 524th, in 1968.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 50.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1968336 births
- Best rank
- #524in 1968
- Since 1909
- 2,433people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,433 girls have been named Coretta in the United States since 1909, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1968, with 336 births.
The name has all but left use: 5 births in 2024, against 336 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1971, and the 1970s alone account for 28%. It has spent 3 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Coretta | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 8 | |
| 1910s | 41 | |
| 1920s | 57 | |
| 1930s | 91 | |
| 1940s | 85 | |
| 1950s | 130 | |
| 1960s | 643 | |
| 1970s | 692 | |
| 1980s | 384 | |
| 1990s | 127 | |
| 2000s | 50 | |
| 2010s | 89 | |
| 2020s | 36 |
In 1968, its biggest year
Coretta was the 524th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1968 were Lisa, Michelle, Kimberly, Jennifer and Melissa. See all of 1968.
Names that rose and fell with Coretta
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Marnipeak 1969
- Mechellepeak 1968
- Felisapeak 1970
- Marniepeak 1969
- Elkepeak 1968
- Sonyapeak 1967
- Dionnepeak 1970
- Tracipeak 1970
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.