How popular is the name Aletha?

Aletha ranks 1,727th among girls' names in US records, with 6,948 births since 1881. Over the past decade it accounts for 58.

Is Aletha a unisex name?

No. Aletha is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

1923, when 145 children were given the name. It has been in use for 144 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Girl name#1,727 of girl names

Pronounced AH0 L IY1 TH AH0 (ARPABET)

Aletha is a girls' name, and first appears in 1881. It has been given to 6,948 children — the 1,727th most common girls' name on record.

It is still recorded, but barely: 58 births across the past decade, against a peak of 145 in a single year. That peak was in 1923.

1923145

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Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Aletha?: Aletha ranks 1,727th among girls' names in US records, with 6,948 births since 1881. Over the past decade it accounts for 58.
Is Aletha a unisex name?: No. Aletha is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Aletha most popular?: 1923, when 145 children were given the name. It has been in use for 144 years and is still recorded as of 2024.