Cleotha
Recorded 1917–1992 · United States
Cleotha was most popular in 1950, when 35 American babies were given the name — ranking #2,670 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 1,042 people named Cleotha.
Cleotha over time
How old is the name Cleotha?
Cleotha first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1917, which makes it about 108 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 71 of the 109 years since. It was last recorded in 1992.
How many people are named Cleotha?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 1,042 American births named Cleotha 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 472 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Cleotha in 2025?
Cleotha 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 Cleotha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Cleotha is a unisex name — 28.0% of the 1,042 Americans given it were girls and 72.0% were boys. It changed hands: since 1934 it has gone mainly to boys, having gone mainly to girls before that.
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 Cleotha?
Roughly 472 Americans named Cleotha are alive today — 45% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 69 years old, and half are between 58 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 Cleotha 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