Caretha
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Caretha has been given to 293 babies in the U.S. since 1916. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1931, with 11 recorded.
Babies named Caretha, 1981
1 in 577,000
Caretha over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Caretha?
Caretha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1981, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1981
- 1 in 577,000
- 6 of 3,459,130 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 278,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1981
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 399,616 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Caretha sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1981 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 399,616 children born in 1981 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Caretha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Carethas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Caretha was born before 1940 — so the typical Caretha is around 85 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1930s
- 25.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 21.2%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 98
- People you could plausibly meet
1930s — 25.6% of all recorded uses (75).
Is Caretha rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1931 (11)
- Years since peak
- 94
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.2% average annual change
Spellings of Caretha
Caretha is not the most common spelling — Martha is, with 90.4% against Caretha's 0.05%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Caretha is used
Across 1910–2025, Caretha was most concentrated in South Carolina — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 471,198 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1South Carolina1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Caretha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Caretha by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Caretha
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Caretha
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.