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Aleta

#15,040 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Alethea

Aleta has been given to 6,446 babies in the U.S. since 1892. In 2025 it ranked #15,040 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1947, with 262 recorded.

Babies named Aleta, 2025

1 in 663,000

Aleta over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aleta: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Alethea

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Aleta means

Aleta is a variant of Alethea.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Aleta is used in English.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Aleta → Alethea. The family’s meaning is “truth”, recorded in the naming reference for Alethea.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Alethea.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,446 girls were recorded with the name Aleta between 1892 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 262 in 1947; its best national rank was #511 in 1947.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,983 in 2020 to #15,040 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,020 in 2015 to #15,040 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Aleta?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#15,040
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aleta sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aleta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aletas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aleta was born before 1955 — so the typical Aleta is around 70 today.

Median birth year
1955
About 70 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
23.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.4%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
4,176
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1950s — 23.1% of all recorded uses (1,492).

Is Aleta rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−4,729
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−7,057
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−7,020
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.36×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
1.9%
Peak was 1947 (262)
Years since peak
78
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#511
1947

Spellings of Aleta

Aleta is not the most common spelling — Anita is, with 12.6% against Aleta's 0.38%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Aleta is used

Across 1910–2025, Aleta was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 57,955 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 33,333
  2. 2Illinois1 in 33,333
  3. 3Michigan1 in 33,333
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in 33,333
  5. 5Virginia1 in 33,333
  6. 6Washington1 in 33,333
  7. 7Indiana1 in 50,000
  8. 8Louisiana1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Aleta has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Aleta around the world

Where Aleta ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2004–2004
    #4,598
    in 2004
  • Canada
    2007–2007
    #3,117
    in 2007
  • South Australia
    1956–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Aleta

People whose public names include Aleta, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Aleta in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Aleta. Linked forms have their own page here.

AlteaAlethaAletiaAlettaAletteAlletaAlet

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Aleta by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#15,040
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 7,057
Best rank ever
#511
1947
Peak year
1947
262 that year
First recorded
1892
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,446
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Aleta

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

AleneAlexiAleiaAleenAlesiaAleshaAlenaAleahAleyaAlexAlexysAleaAleciaAleenaAlessaAleynaAleyahAletheaAleighaAlexusAleidaAlessiaAlethaAleyda

Names with a curve like Aleta

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Aleta, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

CarleenCarlottaMariannBonnyRoseanneRositaMaritaJacqueJoellenMerryCherryMickie

Sibling names for Aleta

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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