Fleta
Fleta is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 655th, in 1884.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191746 births
- Best rank
- #655in 1884
- Since 1881
- 1,333people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,333 girls have been named Fleta in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1917, with 46 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 46 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1922, and the 1920s alone account for 25%. It has spent 18 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1917, its biggest year
Fleta was outside the top 1,000 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 Fleta
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Vivapeak 1921
- Virgiepeak 1918
- Omapeak 1916
- Ernapeak 1916
- Ovapeak 1919
- Verdiepeak 1918
- Lethapeak 1918
- Vestapeak 1918
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.