Clelia vs Cletus
American parents have registered 7,709 Cletuses since 1880, against 530 Clelias. Cletus is still ahead, with 9 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Clelia Cletus
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 134 years in which either name was published, Cletus for 131 years and Clelia for 3 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.
Side by side
| Clelia | Cletus | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 530 | 7,709 |
| Most in one year | 21 | 243 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | 9 |
| Estimated living today | 210 | 2,100 |
| Median age today | 64 | 65 |
| Peak year | 1920 | 1922 |
| Best rank | 1,889th girls | 391st boys |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | 8,243rd |
| First recorded | 1903 | 1886 |
| Girls / boys | 530 / 0 | 272 / 7,437 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Clelia and Cletus.