How Many People Are Named Aleta?

4,477

people named Aleta are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 76,342 people in the US has this name

Based on 6,446 babies named Aleta in Social Security records from 1892 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#3,975

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#2,242

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Peak Year

1947

262 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Possibly a variant of ALETHEA. This was the name of the wife of the title character in the comic strip 'Prince Valiant' which first appeared in 1937.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Related & Similar Names

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Aleta in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Aleta alive today is about 60 years old, and 60% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 50 and 73 in 2025.

Under 30 372
8.3%
30 to 59 1,417
31.7%
60 and over 2,688
60%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Aleta first appears in the records in 1892 and was given most often in 1947, to 262 babies. In 2025, 5 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1892 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Aleta has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #511, in 1947. In 2025 it ranked #15,039.

Girls
Rank in 2025#15,039
Best rank#511 (1947)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#792 in the 1950s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Aleta alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Aleta were born in California than in any other state: about 439 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Aleta was given 2.7 times as often in California, 1.9 times in Virginia and 1.8 times in Washington.

California 439
Pennsylvania 192
New York 161
Illinois 153
Michigan 137
Ohio 135
Texas 93
Virginia 87
North Carolina 55
Washington 53
Louisiana 51
Indiana 46
Maryland 37
Missouri 33
New Jersey 31
West Virginia 26
Georgia 22
Massachusetts 20
Wisconsin 19
Kansas 15
Oklahoma 11
Alabama 10
Tennessee 9
Oregon 8
Minnesota 7
Arkansas 5
Arizona 4
Colorado 4
Utah 4
Connecticut 4
Florida 4
Mississippi 4
Maine 3

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