Meaning and history
Cletus is a short form of Anacletus and is sometimes used to refer to the third pope, Saint Anacletus; it can also serve as an Anglicized form of Kleitos.
20062006: 5 births, rank #12,055
2007: 5 births, rank #12,367
2008: 6 births, rank #11,037
2009: 5 births, rank #12,491
2010: no US SSA record for this spelling
20112011: 8 births, rank #8,767
2012: 5 births, rank #12,274
2013: 8 births, rank #8,789
2014: 7 births, rank #9,642
2015: 8 births, rank #8,744
20162016: 6 births, rank #10,744
2017: 6 births, rank #10,775
2018: 7 births, rank #9,670
2019: 6 births, rank #10,803
2020: 8 births, rank #8,739
20212021: 10 births, rank #7,587
2022: 9 births, rank #8,300
2023: no US SSA record for this spelling
2024: 6 births, rank #10,938
20252025: 9 births, rank #8,243
Cletus rose from #936 to #926 for boys between 1964 and 1966. Its highest annual birth count came in 1922, with 233 births.