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Alethia

#10,139 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Alethia has been given to 2,521 babies in the U.S. since 1894. In 2025 it ranked #10,139 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1973, with 74 recorded.

Babies named Alethia, 2025

1 in 368,000

Alethia over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Alethia: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Alethia means

Alethia is a given name.

The naming story behind Alethia

Wikidata records Alethia as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q138006399, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,521 girls were recorded with the name Alethia between 1894 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 74 in 1973; its best national rank was #1,106 in 1900.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,225 in 2020 to #10,139 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,987 in 2015 to #10,139 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 Alethia?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 179,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#10,139
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alethia 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alethia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alethias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alethia was born before 1967 — so the typical Alethia is around 58 today.

Median birth year
1967
About 58 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
13.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
16.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,704
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 13.8% of all recorded uses (349).

Is Alethia 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
−1,178
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,914
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,152
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.53×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
12.2%
Peak was 1973 (74)
Years since peak
52
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,106
1900

Spellings of Alethia

Alethia is not the most common spelling — Alexia is, with 26.9% against Alethia's 1.5%.

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 Alethia is used

Across 1910–2025, Alethia was most concentrated in South Carolina — about 1 in 11,111 girls, against 1 in 151,378 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

09 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1South Carolina1 in 11,111
  2. 2Georgia1 in 50,000
  3. 3North Carolina1 in 100,000
  4. 4California1 in —
  5. 5Florida1 in —
  6. 6New Jersey1 in —
  7. 7New York1 in —
  8. 8Texas1 in —

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. Alethia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Alethia around the world

Where Alethia 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
    2008–2008
    #4,524
    in 2008
  • South Australia
    1981–1999
    #729
    in 1999

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

Notable people named Alethia

People whose public names include Alethia, 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.

Alethia in other languages

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

AlethaAletiaAletheaAletheiaAletéia

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

Alethia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,139
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,914
Best rank ever
#1,106
1900
Peak year
1973
74 that year
First recorded
1894
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,521
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Alethia

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

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Names with a curve like Alethia

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

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Sibling names for Alethia

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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