Coretta
The girl's name Coretta has been in the national records since 1909, with 2,433 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 2,100 Corettas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 53.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Coretta
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,433
- Estimated living today
- 2,100
- Median age today
- 53
- Peak year
- 1968
- Best rank
- 524th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1909
How old the living Corettas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,433 babies given the name since 1909, about 2,100 are alive — 86 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1972 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Corettas
- Coretta Scott King (1927–2006)American author, activist, and civil rights leader; wife of Martin Luther King, Jr.
People named Coretta with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Coretta is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Coretta is most concentrated in Mississippi (8.6×), Alabama (5.2×), South Carolina (5.0×), Georgia (4.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1968
The most popular girls’ names the year Coretta peaked:
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Coretta against another name
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.