Claretha
Recorded 1918–1989 · United States
Claretha was most popular in 1948, when 41 American babies were given the name — ranking #2,460 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 1,109 people named Claretha.
Claretha over time
How old is the name Claretha?
Claretha first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1918, which makes it about 107 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 61 of the 108 years since. It was last recorded in 1989.
How many people are named Claretha?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 1,109 American births named Claretha between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 638 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Claretha in 2025?
Claretha was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Claretha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Claretha is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 1,109 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% were boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Claretha?
Roughly 638 Americans named Claretha are alive today — 58% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 73 years old, and half are between 66 and 79.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Claretha is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org