Fewer than five US girls were named Coretta in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #524, reached in 1968. That year also had the most girls given the name: 336. For comparison, it was #7,718 in 2015 and #3,093 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Coretta in 104 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1909 with 8 babies. In all, 2,433 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 692 babies named Coretta.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 87 US girls were named Coretta; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 18.
Rarer spellings such as Coretha, Corita and Corretta are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.