Feminine dossier · first seen 1900

Aretha

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Aretha
Creator: Social Security Administration

Stable Decline Gradual decline from 1968

Peak era

1968

Peak rank proxy

543

Current vitality

Below reporting floor

Generation

Gen X

1900Peak 19682024

Peak year

1968

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

5,656

Aretha is past its period of maximum cultural dominance, but it has not disappeared. Unlike names that burn out quickly, it still carries enough usage to remain cross-generational rather than purely nostalgic.

Your name peaked in 1968, when 543 girls were named Aretha.

No girls were recorded with this name in 2024 — at least not five of them (the SSA's reporting floor).

Down 100% from its peak.

All told, about 5,656 Americans have been named Aretha and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1900.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationGen X

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryGradual decline from 1968

1968543 girls named Aretha

20240 (extinct) girls named Aretha

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