How Many People Are Named Aletha?
people named Aletha are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 100,171 people in the US has this name
Based on 6,948 babies named Aletha in Social Security records from 1881 to 2024, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
145 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of ALETHEA.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Aletha in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Aletha alive today is about 58 years old, and 50% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 47 and 70 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Aletha first appears in the records in 1881 and was given most often in 1923, to 145 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2024.
Babies given the name each year, 1881 to 2024
🏆 Rank History
Aletha has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #600, in 1904.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #600 (1904) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #691 in the 1920s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Aletha alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Aletha were born in Texas than in any other state: about 137 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Aletha was given 3.4 times as often in Iowa, 3.2 times in Kansas and 2.5 times in Michigan.
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