Cledith
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Cledith has been given to 447 babies in the U.S. since 1913. 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 1915, with 20 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 54% girls, 46% boys all-time.
Babies named Cledith, 1946
1 in 456,000
Cledith 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Cledith over time
In 1966, Cledith went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Cledith?
Cledith had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1946, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1946
- 1 in 456,000
- 7 of 3,195,175 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 224,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1946
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 316,391 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Cledith sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1946 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 316,391 children born in 1946 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cledith. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Clediths were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Cledith was born before 1926 — so the typical Cledith is around 99 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 37.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 70.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 37.1% of all recorded uses (89).
Is Cledith 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 1915 (20)
- Years since peak
- 110
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 30.1% average annual change
Spellings of Cledith
Cledith is not the most common spelling — Edith is, with 99.7% against Cledith's 0.09%.
Where Cledith is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Cledith was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 305,193 across all states with data. It was least common in Missouri (1 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. Cledith has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Cledith is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Cledith was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 458,016 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Kentucky1 in —
- 2West Virginia1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Cledith has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Cledith by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Cledith
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Cledith
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.