Altha
Altha is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 425th, in 1884.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191799 births
- Best rank
- #425in 1884
- Since 1880
- 3,365people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,365 girls have been named Altha in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1917, with 99 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 99 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1921, and the 1920s alone account for 24%. It has spent 55 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Altha | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 165 | |
| 1890s | 282 | |
| 1900s | 331 | |
| 1910s | 738 | |
| 1920s | 813 | |
| 1930s | 459 | |
| 1940s | 287 | |
| 1950s | 184 | |
| 1960s | 86 | |
| 1970s | 20 |
In 1917, its biggest year
Altha was the 691st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1917 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1917.
Names that rose and fell with Altha
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Henriettapeak 1918
- Elmirapeak 1921
- Dessiepeak 1918
- Nellpeak 1917
- Elvinapeak 1920
- Florencepeak 1918
- Edithpeak 1918
- Altapeak 1918
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.