Aletta

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Aletta is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 35 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.

Rank in 2024: —outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024: 350.00% of girls
Peak year: 193537 births
Best rank: —never in the top 1,000
Since 1892: 1,089people given the name

Babies named Aletta, by year of birthgirls

The story in the numbers

1,089 girls have been named Aletta in the United States since 1892, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1935, with 37 births.

This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1958, and the 2010s alone account for 13%.

By decade

Decade	girls named Aletta
1890s	20
1900s	5
1910s	66
1920s	105
1930s	139
1940s	122
1950s	99
1960s	81
1970s	100
1980s	51
1990s	16
2000s	28
2010s	142
2020s	115

In 1935, its biggest year

Aletta was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1935 were Mary, Shirley, Barbara, Betty and Patricia. See all of 1935.

Names that rose and fell with Aletta

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.