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Altha

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Altha has been given to 3,386 babies in the U.S. since 1880. 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 1917, with 99 recorded.

Babies named Altha, 1976

1 in 506,000

Altha over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Altha: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Altha means

Altha is a given name.

The naming story behind Altha

Wikidata records Altha as a given name. The entity identifier is Q115607917, 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, 3,365 girls were recorded with the name Altha between 1880 and 1976. Its highest annual count was 99 in 1917; its best national rank was #425 in 1884.

In the United States, 21 boys were recorded with the name Altha between 1916 and 1929. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1923; its best national rank was #3,829 in 1923.

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 Altha?

Altha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1976, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1976
1 in 506,000
6 of 3,034,007 births
Among girls only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1976
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
350,503 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Altha 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 1976 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 350,503 children born in 1976 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Altha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Althas were born

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

Median birth year
1921
About 104 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
24.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
7.3%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
290
People you could plausibly meet
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1920s — 24.2% of all recorded uses (813).

Is Altha 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 1917 (99)
Years since peak
108
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#425
1884

Spellings of Altha

Altha is not the most common spelling — Martha is, with 38.7% against Altha's 0.24%.

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 Altha is used

Across 1910–2025, Altha was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in 11,111 girls, against 1 in 92,757 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

09 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arkansas1 in 11,111
  2. 2Oklahoma1 in 25,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 33,333
  4. 4Alabama1 in 50,000
  5. 5Mississippi1 in 50,000
  6. 6Tennessee1 in 50,000
  7. 7Kentucky1 in 100,000
  8. 8Louisiana1 in 100,000

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

Altha around the world

Where Altha 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
    1963–1963
    #644
    in 1963

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

Notable people named Altha

People whose public names include Altha, 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.

Altha 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
#425
1884
Peak year
1917
99 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
1976
All-time count
3,365
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,829
1923
Peak year
1923
6 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
1929
All-time count
21
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Altha

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

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Names with a curve like Altha

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

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Sibling names for Altha

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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