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Aletta

#5,564 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Adelheid

Aletta has been given to 1,111 babies in the U.S. since 1892. In 2025 it ranked #5,564 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1935, with 37 recorded.

Babies named Aletta, 2025

1 in 151,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aletta: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Adelheid

Germanic languages

What Aletta means

Aletta is a diminutive of Adelheid.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Aletta → Adelheid → Adalheid. The family’s meaning is “noble + character”, recorded in Old High German with the source elements aþalaz and haiduz.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From a Middle Low German diminutive form of Adelheid, related to English Adelaide and Alice.

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

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Aletta is used in English. Its origins include Germanic languages.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Adelheid.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,111 girls were recorded with the name Aletta between 1892 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 37 in 1935; its best national rank was #1,165 in 1935.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,568 in 2020 to #5,564 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,963 in 2015 to #5,564 in 2025.

How common is Aletta?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 151,000
22 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 73,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,564
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
104,451 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aletta 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 104,451 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aletta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alettas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aletta was born before 1959 — so the typical Aletta is around 66 today.

Median birth year
1959
About 66 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
12.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
27.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
654
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 12.8% of all recorded uses (142).

Is Aletta 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
−1,446
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,004
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,399
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.83×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
59.5%
Peak was 1935 (37)
Years since peak
90
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,165
1935

Spellings of Aletta

Aletta is not the most common spelling — Alexa is, with 22.2% against Aletta's 0.19%.

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 Aletta is used

Across 1910–2025, Aletta was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 549,668 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arkansas1 in —
  2. 2Missouri1 in —
  3. 3Oklahoma1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 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. Aletta has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Aletta around the world

Where Aletta 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
    2013–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2023
    #3,391
    in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Aletta by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,564
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,004
Best rank ever
#1,165
1935
Peak year
1935
37 that year
First recorded
1892
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,111
Count in 2025
22

Names similar to Aletta

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

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Sibling names for Aletta

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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