Cletis
Recorded 1904–1996 · United States
Cletis was most popular in 1924, when 52 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,983 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 1,762 people named Cletis.
Cletis over time
How old is the name Cletis?
Cletis first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1904, which makes it about 121 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 80 of the 122 years since. It was last recorded in 1996.
How many people are named Cletis?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 1,762 American births named Cletis 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 607 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Cletis in 2025?
Cletis 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 Cletis a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Cletis is mostly a boy’s name — 9.0% of the 1,762 Americans given it were girls and 91.0% 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 Cletis?
Roughly 607 Americans named Cletis are alive today — 35% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 64 years old, and half are between 57 and 76.
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 Cletis 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