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Coretta

Girls' name

Diminutive of Cora

Coretta has been given to 2,433 babies in the U.S. since 1909. 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 1968, with 336 recorded.

Babies named Coretta, 2024

1 in 669,000

Coretta over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Coretta: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Cora

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Coretta means

Coretta is a diminutive of Cora.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Coretta is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /kɔ.ˈɹɛt.ə/ for Coretta.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Coretta → Cora. The family’s meaning is “maiden”, recorded in English with the source elements kórē.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Cora.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,433 girls were recorded with the name Coretta between 1909 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 336 in 1968; its best national rank was #524 in 1968.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Coretta?

Coretta had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 324,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Coretta sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Coretta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Corettas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Coretta was born before 1971 — so the typical Coretta is around 54 today.

Median birth year
1971
About 54 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
28.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
7.2%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
2,151
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 28.4% of all recorded uses (692).

Is Coretta 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 1968 (336)
Years since peak
57
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
42.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#524
1968

Coretta’s breakout year

Among the small set of names that had a single, unmistakable year — a surge well above the years on either side of it.

In 1968, 336 girls were named Coretta — about #524 that year — roughly 4.2× as many as in the surrounding years. What the data can’t say is why; the story behind the year is one you’ll likely recognise. Other one-hit wonders

Spellings of Coretta

Coretta is not the most common spelling — Loretta is, with 57.3% against Coretta's 0.79%.

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 Coretta is used

Across 1910–2025, Coretta was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 132,288 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 20,000
  2. 2Alabama1 in 33,333
  3. 3Georgia1 in 33,333
  4. 4South Carolina1 in 33,333
  5. 5District of Columbia1 in 50,000
  6. 6Louisiana1 in 50,000
  7. 7Florida1 in 100,000
  8. 8Illinois1 in 100,000

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. Coretta has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Notable people named Coretta

People whose public names include Coretta, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Coretta in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Coretta. Linked forms have their own page here.

Corette

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Coretta by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#524
1968
Peak year
1968
336 that year
First recorded
1909
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
2,433
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Coretta

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Coretta

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Coretta, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Coretta

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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