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Althia

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Althia has been given to 215 babies in the U.S. since 1912. 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 1945, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Althia, 1975

1 in 604,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Althia: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Althia means

Althia is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Althia is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 215 girls were recorded with the name Althia between 1912 and 1975. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1945; its best national rank was #2,462 in 1945.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Althia?

Althia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1975, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1975
1 in 604,000
5 of 3,019,126 births
Among girls only
1 in 292,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1975
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
418,541 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Althia 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 1975 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 418,541 children born in 1975 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Althia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Althias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Althia was born before 1949 — so the typical Althia is around 76 today.

Median birth year
1949
About 76 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
24.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
45.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
102
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1950s — 24.2% of all recorded uses (52).

Is Althia 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 1945 (13)
Years since peak
80
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,462
1945

Spellings of Althia

Althia is not the most common spelling — Alicia is, with 46.9% against Althia's 0.04%.

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 Althia is used

Across 1910–2025, Althia was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 580,767 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 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. Althia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Althia around the world

Where Althia 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
    1979–1979
    #627
    in 1979

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

Althia 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
—
Best rank ever
#2,462
1945
Peak year
1945
13 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
1975
All-time count
215
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Althia

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

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Sibling names for Althia

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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