girls:
159 births since 1911
#5557 (3rd percentile)
boys:
1.6k births since 1904
#3072 (33rd percentile)
overall:
1.8k births since 1904
#5989 (23rd percentile)
The name Cletis is the #5,989 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,762 recorded births since 1904. This represents the 22.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 22.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,072 (33.0% percentile) for all time with 1,603 births since 1904. For girls, it ranks #5,557 (2.7% percentile) for all time with 159 births since 1911.
Cletis first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1904 (1904 for boys and 1911 for girls). Birth data for Cletis is available in 80 out of the 93 years between 1904 and 1996 (79 years for boys and 21 years for girls). 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.
The name Cletis has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 91.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Cletis reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 7.1% percentile (ranked #515) with 38 births per million. The name was most common in 1904, with 43 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1996.
For girls, Cletis reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 1.5% percentile (ranked #599) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1911, with 16 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1942.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Cletis".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Cletis. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 70.0% confident that Cletis is pronounced as KLEE-tihs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KLEH-tihs, at 15.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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