Cleona
Recorded 1895–2025 · United States
Cleona was most popular in 1919, when 34 American babies were given the name — ranking #2,415 that year. In 2025 it ranked #22,044, with 6 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 831 people named Cleona.
Cleona over time
How old is the name Cleona?
Cleona first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1895, which makes it about 130 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 63 of the 131 years since.
How many people are named Cleona?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 831 American births named Cleona 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 146 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Cleona in 2025?
6 American babies were named Cleona in 2025, ranking #22,044 that year.
Is Cleona getting more or less popular?
Cleona is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 6 births a year across 2021–2025 against 5 a year a decade earlier — at these counts a single baby moves the percentage, and any year under five births is withheld at source.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Cleona a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Cleona is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 831 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 100% girls and 0% 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 Cleona?
Roughly 146 Americans named Cleona are alive today — 18% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 79 years old, and half are between 66 and 87.
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.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org