Iantha

Girls' name

Variant of Ianthe

Iantha has been given to 511 babies in the U.S. since 1906. 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 1915, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Iantha, 1983

1 in 693,000

Iantha over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Iantha: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Ianthe

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Iantha means

Iantha is a variant of Ianthe.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Iantha is used in Various (Rare).

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ianthe.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 511 girls were recorded with the name Iantha between 1906 and 1983. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1915; its best national rank was #1,630 in 1906.

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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Iantha?

Iantha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1983, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1983: 1 in 693,000; 5 of 3,463,011 births
Among girls only: 1 in 334,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1983: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 480,076 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Iantha 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 1983 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 480,076 children born in 1983 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Iantha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ianthas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Iantha was born before 1932 — so the typical Iantha is around 93 today.

Median birth year: 1932; About 93 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 24.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 13.3%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 140; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 24.3% of all recorded uses (124).

Is Iantha 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1915 (16)
Years since peak: 110; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 49.5% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,630; 1906

Spellings of Iantha

Iantha is not the most common spelling — Martha is, with 96.6% against Iantha's 0.09%.

Martha96.6%551,741
Santa0.76%4,370
Altha0.59%3,365
Eartha0.51%2,920
Atha0.25%1,441
Manha0.23%1,327
Fanta0.20%1,168
Ianna0.20%1,121

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 Iantha is used

Across 1910–2025, Iantha was most concentrated in Maryland — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,468,749 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Maryland1 in —
2Texas1 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. Iantha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Iantha 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: #1,630; 1906
Peak year: 1915; 16 that year
First recorded: 1906
Last recorded: 1983
All-time count: 511
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Iantha

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

Ianna Aastha Iana Artha Anvitha Mirtha Girtha Amrutha Weltha Ian Yuktha Dartha Leotha Iretha Leitha Nishtha Editha Swetha Cyntha Eletha Myrtha Coretha Seretha Luretha

Sibling names for Iantha

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Golda Lauretta Era Leatha Leone Mayme Artie Alpha

For a brother

Gustave Waldo Orrin Winfield Dorsey Aloysius Hyman Regis

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