Floretta
Floretta is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 954th, in 1908.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 193051 births
- Best rank
- #954in 1908
- Since 1890
- 2,071people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,071 girls have been named Floretta in the United States since 1890, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1930, with 51 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 51 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1936, and the 1930s alone account for 21%. It has spent 2 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Floretta | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 36 | |
| 1900s | 93 | |
| 1910s | 263 | |
| 1920s | 371 | |
| 1930s | 432 | |
| 1940s | 326 | |
| 1950s | 297 | |
| 1960s | 164 | |
| 1970s | 74 | |
| 1980s | 15 |
In 1930, its biggest year
Floretta was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1930 were Mary, Betty, Dorothy, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1930.
Names that rose and fell with Floretta
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Rethapeak 1924
- Bernardinepeak 1925
- Delmapeak 1926
- Retapeak 1946
- Norenepeak 1931
- Cletapeak 1935
- Melvapeak 1938
- Williapeak 1928
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.