Alethea
Alethea is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 65 births. Its best rank was 522nd, in 1973.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 650.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1973322 births
- Best rank
- #522in 1973
- Since 1892
- 4,913people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,913 girls have been named Alethea in the United States since 1892, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1973, with 322 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1974, and the 1970s alone account for 25%. It has spent 2 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Alethea | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 25 | |
| 1900s | 37 | |
| 1910s | 154 | |
| 1920s | 214 | |
| 1930s | 108 | |
| 1940s | 172 | |
| 1950s | 464 | |
| 1960s | 680 | |
| 1970s | 1,215 | |
| 1980s | 533 | |
| 1990s | 286 | |
| 2000s | 303 | |
| 2010s | 360 | |
| 2020s | 362 |
In 1973, its biggest year
Alethea was the 522nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1973 were Jennifer, Amy, Michelle, Kimberly and Lisa. See all of 1973.
Names that rose and fell with Alethea
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Venuspeak 1959
- Lucreciapeak 1977
- Tobipeak 1975
- Petrinapeak 1971
- Tobiepeak 1975
- Soniapeak 1970
- Marciepeak 1971
- Gretchenpeak 1973
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.