Feminine dossier · first seen 1918

Claretha

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

Extinct Near statistical disappearance

Peak era

1948

Peak rank proxy

Current vitality

Dormant

Generation

Boomer

1918Peak 19482024

Peak year

1948

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

1,109

Claretha has moved from ordinary use into the archive. Its peak belongs most strongly to the Boomer naming world, and its absence today gives the name the strange clarity of a cultural fossil.

Your name peaked in 1948, when 41 girls were named Claretha.

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 1,109 Americans have been named Claretha and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1918.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationBoomer

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryNear statistical disappearance

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