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Cleda

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Cleda is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 901st, in 1903.

Rank in 2024
fewer than 5 births
Births in 2024
0not in the data
Peak year
191752 births
Best rank
#901in 1903
Since 1888
1,392people given the name
Babies named Cleda, by year of birthgirls
025507510018801900192019401960198020002020

The story in the numbers

1,392 girls have been named Cleda in the United States since 1888, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1917, with 52 births.

The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 52 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1925, and the 1920s alone account for 26%. It has spent 3 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
#1#250#500#750#100018801900192019401960198020002020

By decade

Decadegirls named Cleda
1880s5
1890s39
1900s116
1910s308
1920s368
1930s285
1940s162
1950s82
1960s27

In 1917, its biggest year

Cleda was the 965th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1917 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1917.

Names that rose and fell with Cleda

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.