girls:
272 births since 1898
#5444 (5th percentile)
boys:
7.4k births since 1886
#1376 (70th percentile)
overall:
7.7k births since 1886
#3077 (60th percentile)
The name Cletus is the #3,077 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 7,692 recorded births since 1886. This represents the 60.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 60.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,376 (70.0% percentile) for all time with 7,420 births since 1886. For girls, it ranks #5,444 (4.7% percentile) for all time with 272 births since 1898.
Cletus first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1886 (1886 for boys and 1898 for girls). Birth data for Cletus is available in 130 out of the 137 years between 1886 and 2022 (130 years for boys and 31 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 Cletus has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 96.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Cletus reached its peak popularity in 1922, achieving the 37.4% percentile (ranked #342) with 207 births per million. The name was most common in 1922, with 207 births per million (ranked 37.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
For girls, Cletus reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 1.9% percentile (ranked #579) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 1899, with 20 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1948.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Cletus".
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