Claretha · Shortlist Together

Meaning

We don’t have a verified meaning for Claretha.

We only publish meanings we can cite to a source you could check yourself. Most sites will give you one anyway; the ones you find elsewhere are often copied between sites without verification.

Its story

Popularity since 1918

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Per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births are not in the record, so the line breaks rather than dropping to zero.

See the 61 recorded years as a table

Claretha, per million girls born. Years absent from the table had fewer than five births.
Year	Per million
1918	10
1919	4
1920	8
1921	6
1922	10
1923	6
1924	7
1925	5
1926	13
1927	13
1928	10
1929	12
1930	19
1931	18
1932	26
1933	29
1934	20
1935	17
1936	16
1937	24
1938	20
1939	14
1940	20
1941	26
1942	18
1943	14
1944	23
1945	19
1946	17
1947	14
1948	24
1949	20
1950	22
1951	18
1952	20
1953	16
1954	16
1955	11
1956	16
1957	10
1958	14
1959	12
1960	9
1961	8
1962	10
1963	8
1964	7
1965	8
1966	4
1967	4
1968	7
1969	6
1970	4
1973	3
1974	6
1975	6
1977	4
1978	3
1981	4
1984	3
1989	3

Where it’s loved

Most popular in these states

Claretha isn’t concentrated in any one state. Either it’s spread evenly, or no state reaches the 25 births over three years needed before a rate means anything.

More like it

More like Claretha

The numbers

Every figure

Births in 1989: 5
Rank in 1989: #12,362
How rare: 1 in 368,710 girls
Since 1918: 1,109

Claretha was last recorded in 1989. Fewer than five girls have been given the name in any year since, which is the point below which the record stops reporting.

Most popular in 1933, at 29 per million girls born.

There isn’t enough data for a ten-year trend: Claretha doesn’t appear in both ends of that window.

Figures from the US Social Security Administration’s 2025 release. How these numbers are made.