Meaning not yet researched.
Cletus: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 9 in 2025. Its best rank was #391 in 1922.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #391 in 1922; #8,382 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Cletus in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,382 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1922, at #391.
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Cletus: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 9 boys in 2025. Peak: #391 in 1922 · most boys in one year: 233 (1922).
In 2025, 9 US boys were named Cletus, making it the 8,382nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 2,817 places from #11,199 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 6 boys named Cletus in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #391, reached in 1922. That year also had the most boys given the name: 233. For comparison, it was #8,903 in 2015 and #762 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cletus in 132 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1886 with 5 babies. In all, 7,709 US babies have been given the name, 3.5% of them girls and 96% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 2,012 babies named Cletus.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 67 US boys were named Cletus; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 10. In 2025 that was about 1 in 189,786 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Cletis, Cleatus and Cleotis are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Cletis (1,762), Cleatus (965), Cleotis (319), Cleatis (228), Cletes (16), Cletys (5), Cleetus (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Cletus in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 9 | #8,382 |
| 2024 | — | — | 6 | #11,199 |
| 2022 | — | — | 9 | #8,440 |
| 2021 | — | — | 10 | #7,717 |
| 2020 | — | — | 8 | #8,893 |
| 2019 | — | — | 6 | #11,043 |
| 2018 | — | — | 7 | #9,874 |
| 2017 | — | — | 6 | #11,039 |
| 2016 | — | — | 6 | #10,987 |
| 2015 | — | — | 8 | #8,903 |
| 2014 | — | — | 7 | #9,836 |
| 2013 | — | — | 8 | #8,948 |
| 2012 | — | — | 5 | #12,624 |
| 2011 | — | — | 8 | #8,908 |
| 2009 | — | — | 5 | #12,835 |
| 2008 | — | — | 6 | #11,316 |
| 2007 | — | — | 5 | #12,703 |
| 2006 | — | — | 5 | #12,378 |
| 2004 | — | — | 10 | #7,067 |
| 2003 | — | — | 8 | #7,980 |
| 2002 | — | — | 8 | #7,772 |
| 2001 | — | — | 11 | #6,089 |
| 2000 | — | — | 6 | #9,292 |
| 1999 | — | — | 12 | #5,366 |
| 1998 | — | — | 5 | #9,876 |
| 1997 | — | — | 11 | #5,335 |
| 1996 | — | — | 10 | #5,604 |
| 1994 | — | — | 9 | #5,942 |
| 1993 | — | — | 11 | #5,060 |
| 1991 | — | — | 17 | #3,486 |
| 1990 | — | — | 10 | #5,050 |
| 1989 | — | — | 16 | #3,483 |
| 1988 | — | — | 12 | #3,949 |
| 1987 | — | — | 13 | #3,563 |
| 1986 | — | — | 18 | #2,798 |
| 1985 | — | — | 19 | #2,615 |
| 1984 | — | — | 17 | #2,717 |
| 1983 | — | — | 21 | #2,348 |
| 1982 | — | — | 20 | #2,442 |
| 1981 | — | — | 28 | #1,954 |
| 1980 | — | — | 25 | #2,121 |
| 1979 | — | — | 24 | #2,114 |
| 1978 | — | — | 18 | #2,494 |
| 1977 | — | — | 21 | #2,217 |
| 1976 | — | — | 29 | #1,751 |
| 1975 | — | — | 18 | #2,383 |
| 1974 | — | — | 20 | #2,137 |
| 1973 | — | — | 22 | #1,938 |
| 1972 | — | — | 28 | #1,655 |
| 1971 | — | — | 31 | #1,562 |
| 1970 | — | — | 40 | #1,316 |
| 1969 | — | — | 38 | #1,283 |
| 1968 | — | — | 34 | #1,319 |
| 1967 | — | — | 52 | #1,005 |
| 1966 | — | — | 62 | #926 |
| 1965 | — | — | 54 | #1,002 |
| 1964 | — | — | 66 | #936 |
| 1963 | — | — | 62 | #958 |
| 1962 | — | — | 49 | #1,092 |
| 1961 | — | — | 63 | #971 |
| 1960 | — | — | 56 | #1,022 |
| 1959 | — | — | 51 | #1,083 |
| 1958 | — | — | 55 | #1,030 |
| 1957 | — | — | 64 | #944 |
| 1956 | — | — | 57 | #989 |
| 1955 | — | — | 67 | #908 |
| 1954 | — | — | 63 | #934 |
| 1953 | — | — | 62 | #909 |
| 1952 | — | — | 75 | #808 |
| 1951 | — | — | 86 | #751 |
| 1950 | — | — | 81 | #762 |
| 1949 | — | — | 82 | #761 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,384 | 78 | #766 |
| 1947 | — | — | 79 | #772 |
| 1946 | — | — | 87 | #695 |
| 1945 | — | — | 88 | #645 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,686 | 74 | #724 |
| 1943 | 5 | #4,804 | 101 | #635 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,742 | 88 | #685 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,520 | 105 | #578 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,567 | 96 | #604 |
| 1939 | — | — | 99 | #575 |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,916 | 97 | #602 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,878 | 119 | #531 |
| 1936 | — | — | 127 | #507 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,325 | 137 | #483 |
| 1934 | — | — | 134 | #495 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,824 | 125 | #501 |
| 1932 | — | — | 156 | #455 |
| 1931 | 11 | #2,607 | 132 | #498 |
| 1930 | — | — | 177 | #442 |
| 1929 | 14 | #2,330 | 159 | #465 |
| 1928 | 9 | #3,215 | 160 | #482 |
| 1927 | 13 | #2,578 | 193 | #439 |
| 1926 | 13 | #2,594 | 200 | #429 |
| 1925 | 13 | #2,640 | 184 | #442 |
| 1924 | 16 | #2,331 | 226 | #407 |
| 1923 | — | — | 200 | #427 |
| 1922 | 10 | #3,200 | 233 | #391 |
| 1921 | 13 | #2,657 | 174 | #466 |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,386 | 173 | #463 |
| 1919 | 13 | #2,541 | 168 | #451 |
| 1918 | 16 | #2,221 | 200 | #414 |
| 1917 | 12 | #2,584 | 189 | #411 |
| 1916 | 11 | #2,696 | 171 | #433 |
| 1915 | 9 | #2,943 | 154 | #438 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,267 | 97 | #497 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,593 | 83 | #476 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,425 | 66 | #486 |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,541 | 34 | #508 |
| 1910 | — | — | 28 | #541 |
| 1909 | — | — | 31 | #454 |
| 1908 | — | — | 30 | #438 |
| 1907 | — | — | 24 | #473 |
| 1906 | — | — | 14 | #650 |
| 1905 | — | — | 19 | #532 |
| 1904 | — | — | 15 | #590 |
| 1903 | — | — | 15 | #581 |
| 1902 | — | — | 10 | #757 |
| 1901 | — | — | 12 | #609 |
| 1900 | — | — | 15 | #652 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,651 | 10 | #670 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,751 | 8 | #820 |
| 1897 | — | — | 9 | #735 |
| 1896 | — | — | 11 | #681 |
| 1895 | — | — | 10 | #700 |
| 1894 | — | — | 10 | #683 |
| 1893 | — | — | 12 | #577 |
| 1892 | — | — | 5 | #1,097 |
| 1891 | — | — | 5 | #999 |
| 1888 | — | — | 5 | #1,066 |
| 1886 | — | — | 5 | #994 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).