Alpharetta

Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Alpharetta has been given to 16 babies in the U.S. since 1921. 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 1921, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Alpharetta, 1922

1 in 382,000

Alpharetta over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Alpharetta?

Alpharetta had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1922, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1922
1 in 382,000
6 of 2,289,103 births
Among girls only
1 in 200,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1922
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
264,449 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alpharetta 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 1922 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 264,449 children born in 1922 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alpharetta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alpharettas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alpharetta was born before 1921 — so the typical Alpharetta is around 104 today.

Median birth year
1921
About 104 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (16).

Is Alpharetta 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1921 (10)
Years since peak
104
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#3,167
1921

Alpharetta 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
#3,167
1921
Peak year
1921
10 that year
First recorded
1921
Last recorded
1922
All-time count
16
Count in 2025
Under 5

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Sibling names for Alpharetta

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