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Aletha

Girls' name

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Aletha has been given to 6,948 babies in the U.S. since 1881. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1923, with 145 recorded.

Babies named Aletha, 2024

1 in 418,000

Aletha 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aletha: meaning, origin, and history

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Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Aletha means

Aletha means “truth”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Derived from Ancient Greek ἀλήθεια (alḗtheia), meaning "truth", "speaker of truth, one who speaks truth".

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Aletha (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Aletha is used in English.

Aletha comes through Ancient Greek ἀλήθεια.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,948 girls were recorded with the name Aletha between 1881 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 145 in 1923; its best national rank was #600 in 1904.

How common is Aletha?

Aletha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 418,000
8 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 203,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
289,633 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aletha 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 2024 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 289,633 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aletha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alethas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aletha was born before 1946 — so the typical Aletha is around 79 today.

Median birth year
1946
About 79 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
16.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
3.1%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
3,210
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 16.3% of all recorded uses (1,131).

Is Aletha 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1923 (145)
Years since peak
102
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#600
1904

Spellings of Aletha

Aletha is not the most common spelling — Alexa is, with 23.0% against Aletha's 1.2%.

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 Aletha is used

Across 1910–2025, Aletha was most concentrated in Iowa — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 61,878 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Iowa1 in 16,667
  2. 2Kansas1 in 20,000
  3. 3Michigan1 in 25,000
  4. 4Arkansas1 in 33,333
  5. 5Missouri1 in 33,333
  6. 6Oklahoma1 in 33,333
  7. 7South Carolina1 in 33,333
  8. 8Alabama1 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. Aletha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Aletha around the world

Where Aletha 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.

  • South Australia
    1985–1985
    #671
    in 1985

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Aletha in other languages

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

AletaAletheaAlethiaAllettha

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

Aletha by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#600
1904
Peak year
1923
145 that year
First recorded
1881
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
6,948
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Aletha

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

AlesiaAleshaAleathaAlexysAleciaAleenaAletaAlessaAleynaAleyahAleneAlexusAletheaAleighaAlessiaAleidaAlexiAleydaAlexieAleiaAleeahAgathaAlenaAleisha

Names with a curve like Aletha

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

CarmelDorcasMarcelleSantaMelvinaEdwardTrevaAntonetteGermaineConcepcionElizebethRowena

Sibling names for Aletha

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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