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[ syll. cle-tus, cl-et-us ] The boy name Cletus is pronounced as KLEHTahS †. Cletus is used mostly in the English language and its language of origin is Greek. Cletus is a variant spelling of the English name Clitus. Cletus is an uncommon baby boy name. At the modest height of its usage in 1922, 0.021% of baby boys were given the name Cletus. It was #391 in rank then. The baby name has seen a steep decline in frequency since then, and is currently of irregular use. Within all boy names in its family, Cletus was nonetheless the most widely used in 2008. Baby names that sound like Cletus include the English Clitus, the Latvian Klaudijs, the Greek Kleitos, the English and German Claudius, the Indian Kalidas, and the German Klaudius.
† approx pronunciation for Cletus: K as in "key (K.IY)" ; L as in "lee (L.IY)" ; EH as in "Ed (EH.D)" ; T as in "tea (T.IY)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)" ; S as in "sea (S.IY)"   |
