Cleta

Where Cleta comes from

Cleta hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1885
    First appearance
    #1,047 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1935
    Peak, #549
    136 babies named Cleta — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1942
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,046.
  4. 1950
    Cleta Mitchell born
    American lawyer, politician and conservative activist
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Cleta Mitchell · American lawyer, politician and conservative activist, born 1950

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.