Feminine dossier · first seen 1884

Retha

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

Extinct Near statistical disappearance

Peak era

1924

Peak rank proxy

252

Current vitality

Dormant

Generation

Greatest Generation

1884Peak 19242024

Peak year

1924

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

10,597

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

Your name peaked in 1924, when 252 girls were named Retha.

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 10,597 Americans have been named Retha and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1884.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationGreatest Generation

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryNear statistical disappearance

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