Aletha

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Aletha is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 8 births. Its best rank was 600th, in 1904.

Rank in 2024: —outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024: 80.00% of girls
Peak year: 1923145 births
Best rank: #600in 1904
Since 1881: 6,948people given the name

Babies named Aletha, by year of birthgirls

The story in the numbers

6,948 girls have been named Aletha in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1923, with 145 births.

The name has all but left use: 8 births in 2024, against 145 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1946, and the 1920s alone account for 16%. It has spent 60 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	girls named Aletha
1880s	74
1890s	160
1900s	276
1910s	819
1920s	1,131
1930s	686
1940s	592
1950s	879
1960s	866
1970s	681
1980s	380
1990s	186
2000s	128
2010s	59
2020s	31

In 1923, its biggest year

Aletha was the 604th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1923 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Betty. See all of 1923.

Names that rose and fell with Aletha

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.