girls:
1.1k births since 1918
#4607 (19th percentile)
overall:
1.1k births since 1918
#6630 (14th percentile)
The name Claretha is the #6,630 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,109 recorded births since 1918. This represents the 14.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 14.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,607 (19.4% percentile) for all time with 1,109 births since 1918.
Claretha first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1918 (first recorded for girls in 1918). Birth data for Claretha is available in 61 out of the 72 years between 1918 and 1989. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Claretha reached its peak popularity in 1948, achieving the 5.3% percentile (ranked #650) with 24 births per million. The name was most common in 1933, with 28 births per million (ranked 4.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1989.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Claretha".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Claretha. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 46.9% confident that Claretha is pronounced as kleh-REH-thuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kluh-REE-thuh, at 34.4% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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