Fleming vs Fleta
American parents have registered 1,333 Fletas since 1880, against 1,017 Flemings. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Fleming Fleta
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 99 years in which either name was published, Fleta for 59 years and Fleming for 40 years. The lead changed hands 20 times.
- 1889–1938 Fleta ahead, apart from 2 short spells
- 1944–1954 Fleming ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1955–1957 Fleta ahead
- 1958–2006 Fleming ahead
14 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Fleming | Fleta | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 1,017 | 1,333 |
| Most in one year | 27 | 46 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 270 | 190 |
| Median age today | 68 | 78 |
| Peak year | 1917 | 1917 |
| Best rank | 1,322nd boys | 1,040th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | unranked |
| First recorded | 1880 | 1881 |
| Girls / boys | 0 / 1,017 | 1,333 / 0 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Fletas alive today are over 78; half the Flemings are over 68. That is 10 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Fleming and Fleta.