Cleda

Last seen for girls in 1965 at #5,817

Peak · girls
1903 · 15 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,392
since 1888

Cleda over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Cleda has never cracked the top 800 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201907peak #896, 1903girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1965#5,8176
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1962#6,5785
1961#4,5469
1960#5,1687
1959#5,5666
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1957#3,69611
1956#4,1619
1955#3,77810
1954#2,69517
1953#4,2268
1952#4,9086
1951#5,4145
1950#3,42310
1949#2,99912
1948#2,41617
1947#2,53016
1946#2,15319
1945#2,23715
1944#2,19916
1943#3,04010
1942#2,11717
1941#1,81020
1940#1,79220
1939#1,40128
1938#1,34330
1937#1,73520
1936#1,20635
1935#1,11939
1934#1,34429
1933#1,72320
1932#1,26833
1931#1,45926
1930#1,56925
1929#1,48727
1928#1,42530
1927#1,19442
1926#1,77223
1925#1,15045
1924#1,22742
1923#1,35034
1922#1,20741
1921#1,22240
1920#1,13244
1919#1,27036
1918#1,10244
1917#96452
1916#1,18936
1915#1,11537
1914#1,26224
1913#1,02028
1912#1,08023
1911#1,11316
1910#1,33512
1909#1,29011
1908#1,00416
1907#99015
1906#1,9515
1905#1,09312
1904#1,09211
1903#89615
1902#1,2199
1901#1,06710
1900#1,10612
1899#1,5965
1898#1,2638
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1896#1,5835
1895#1,1239
1894#1,2377
1893#1,4375
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First appearance
1888

The first year at least five girls were named Cleda! It came in at #1,276, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1888–1893, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Cleda is popular in 1907

The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.

See more about Cleda
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1965
  • Biggest jump: 961 spots in 1907 (#1,951 → #990)
  • Biggest drop: 196 spots in 1904 (#896 → #1,092)
Rise & fade · girls
15 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1888
  • Peaked 1903 at #896 (15 births)
  • Births halved by 1906, 3 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 3 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 3 yrs · 1903–1917
Share of babies · girls
1 in 17,465
  • Highest: 1 in 17,465 girls born in 1903 were named Cleda (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 294,194 girls born in 1965 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1920s
  • 26.4% of all girls named Cleda (368) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s5#1,276 (1888)#1,276
1890s39#1,123 (1895)#1,373
1900s116#896 (1903)#1,171
1910s308#964 (1917)#1,145
1920s368#1,132 (1920)#1,317
1930s285#1,119 (1935)#1,417
1940s162#1,792 (1940)#2,329
1950s82#2,695 (1954)#4,207
1960s27#4,546 (1961)#5,527

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Cleda in 1907

girls
#990
15 births · 1 in 21,238 girls

Top girls' names in 1907

  1. #1Mary17,580
  2. #2Helen7,579
  3. #3Margaret6,713
  4. #4Anna5,575
  5. #5Ruth5,573
  6. #6Dorothy4,967
  7. #7Elizabeth4,624
  8. #8Mildred4,277
  9. #9Alice4,107
  10. #10Marie3,880
  11. #990Cleda15
More about 1907

girls

318,564 girls got a published name in 1907; 1 in 21,238 of them was named Cleda, which outranked 58.7% of the 2,399 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Cleda
  1. #945Vicie16
  2. #945Zada16
  3. #945Zettie16
  4. #990Cleda15
  5. #990Alverda15
  6. #990Arrie15
  7. #990Bea15
  8. #1,037Adline14
  9. #1,037Aili14
  10. #1,037Arlena14

Tied with 46 names at #990; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1906
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,028Lota#1,951 → #923
  2. ↑ 1,028Tula#1,951 → #923
  3. ↑ 961Cleda#1,951 → #990
  4. ↑ 961Ingrid#1,951 → #990
  5. ↑ 961Santa#1,951 → #990
Fallers
  1. ↓ 926Macy#895 → #1,821
  2. ↓ 742Libbie#642 → #1,384
  3. ↓ 736Hertha#776 → #1,512
  4. ↓ 719Zadie#793 → #1,512
  5. ↓ 674Anabel#965 → #1,639

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1907 →