Cletus - Meaning of Cletus

What does Cletus mean?

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Cletus

[ 1 syll. cle-tus, cl-et-us ] The baby boy name Cletus is pronounced as KLLTahS †. Cletus is used mostly in the English language and its language of origin is Old Greek.

Cletus is a derivative (English) of the Greek name Anakletos.

Cletus is also a variant spelling of the English name Clitus.

See also the related categories, english and greek.

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 2018.

Baby names that sound like Cletus include Clitus, Kelita, Kleitos, Xólotl, Claudius, Kalidas, Kalydas, Klaudius, Klaudiusz, Qaletaqa, Claudios, and Kalidasa.

† Pronunciation for Cletus: K as in "key (K.IY)" ; L as in "lay (L.EY)" ; T as in "tee (T.IY)" ; AH as in "mud (M.AH.D)" ; S as in "see (S.IY)"