How popular is the name Aretha?

Aretha ranks 1,960th among girls' names in US records, with 5,656 births since 1900. Over the past decade it accounts for 28.

Is Aretha a unisex name?

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

1968, when 543 children were given the name. It has been in use for 124 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Girl name#1,960 of girl names

Pronounced ER0 IY1 TH AH0 (ARPABET)

Aretha is a girls' name, and first appears in 1900. It has been given to 5,656 children — the 1,960th most common girls' name on record.

It is still recorded, but barely: 28 births across the past decade, against a peak of 543 in a single year. That peak was in 1968.

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Phonetic detail

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 Aretha?: Aretha ranks 1,960th among girls' names in US records, with 5,656 births since 1900. Over the past decade it accounts for 28.
Is Aretha a unisex name?: No. Aretha is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Aretha most popular?: 1968, when 543 children were given the name. It has been in use for 124 years and is still recorded as of 2024.