Meaning not yet researched.
Aleta: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 5 in 2025. Its best rank was #511 in 1947.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #511 in 1947; #15,044 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Aleta in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#15,044 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1947, at #511.
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Aleta: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 5 girls in 2025. Peak: #511 in 1947 · most girls in one year: 262 (1947).
In 2025, 5 US girls were named Aleta, making it the 15,044th most common girls’ name of the year, down 4,728 places from #10,316 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 9 girls named Aleta in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #511, reached in 1947. That year also had the most girls given the name: 262. For comparison, it was #8,024 in 2015 and #626 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Aleta in 130 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1892 with 5 babies. In all, 6,446 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 1,492 babies named Aleta.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 95 US girls were named Aleta; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 13. In 2025 that was about 1 in 321,453 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Aletha (6,948 babies since 1880) and Alita (2,608 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Alette, Aelita and Aletia are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Alette (120), Aelita (103), Aletia (55), Allita (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Aleta in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,044 | — | — |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,316 | — | — |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,236 | — | — |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,088 | — | — |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,001 | — | — |
| 2020 | 13 | #7,988 | — | — |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,763 | — | — |
| 2018 | 10 | #9,846 | — | — |
| 2017 | 7 | #12,778 | — | — |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,445 | — | — |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,024 | — | — |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,071 | — | — |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,601 | — | — |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,156 | — | — |
| 2011 | 11 | #9,745 | — | — |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,483 | — | — |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,498 | — | — |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,753 | — | — |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,673 | — | — |
| 2006 | 11 | #9,931 | — | — |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,161 | — | — |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,094 | — | — |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,541 | — | — |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,295 | — | — |
| 2001 | 15 | #6,969 | — | — |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,498 | — | — |
| 1999 | 17 | #5,908 | — | — |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,809 | — | — |
| 1997 | 21 | #4,829 | — | — |
| 1996 | 24 | #4,313 | — | — |
| 1995 | 22 | #4,525 | — | — |
| 1994 | 24 | #4,244 | — | — |
| 1993 | 15 | #5,963 | — | — |
| 1992 | 26 | #3,970 | — | — |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,500 | — | — |
| 1990 | 24 | #4,125 | — | — |
| 1989 | 27 | #3,674 | — | — |
| 1988 | 29 | #3,307 | — | — |
| 1987 | 34 | #2,854 | — | — |
| 1986 | 35 | #2,725 | — | — |
| 1985 | 32 | #2,860 | — | — |
| 1984 | 41 | #2,340 | — | — |
| 1983 | 36 | #2,516 | — | — |
| 1982 | 37 | #2,533 | — | — |
| 1981 | 81 | #1,491 | — | — |
| 1980 | 55 | #1,936 | — | — |
| 1979 | 48 | #2,088 | — | — |
| 1978 | 55 | #1,824 | — | — |
| 1977 | 62 | #1,682 | — | — |
| 1976 | 42 | #2,061 | — | — |
| 1975 | 62 | #1,586 | — | — |
| 1974 | 55 | #1,667 | — | — |
| 1973 | 64 | #1,478 | — | — |
| 1972 | 61 | #1,526 | — | — |
| 1971 | 92 | #1,221 | — | — |
| 1970 | 64 | #1,526 | — | — |
| 1969 | 74 | #1,317 | — | — |
| 1968 | 69 | #1,334 | — | — |
| 1967 | 94 | #1,071 | — | — |
| 1966 | 121 | #918 | — | — |
| 1965 | 139 | #846 | — | — |
| 1964 | 117 | #982 | — | — |
| 1963 | 140 | #887 | — | — |
| 1962 | 122 | #960 | — | — |
| 1961 | 146 | #888 | — | — |
| 1960 | 141 | #874 | — | — |
| 1959 | 96 | #1,087 | — | — |
| 1958 | 106 | #1,007 | — | — |
| 1957 | 114 | #970 | — | — |
| 1956 | 153 | #802 | — | — |
| 1955 | 162 | #746 | — | — |
| 1954 | 205 | #639 | — | — |
| 1953 | 166 | #711 | — | — |
| 1952 | 164 | #699 | — | — |
| 1951 | 143 | #728 | — | — |
| 1950 | 183 | #626 | — | — |
| 1949 | 145 | #702 | — | — |
| 1948 | 227 | #551 | — | — |
| 1947 | 262 | #511 | — | — |
| 1946 | 171 | #606 | — | — |
| 1945 | 102 | #737 | — | — |
| 1944 | 38 | #1,293 | — | — |
| 1943 | 52 | #1,114 | — | — |
| 1942 | 56 | #1,047 | — | — |
| 1941 | 40 | #1,185 | — | — |
| 1940 | 23 | #1,637 | — | — |
| 1939 | 33 | #1,292 | — | — |
| 1938 | 38 | #1,183 | — | — |
| 1937 | 42 | #1,100 | — | — |
| 1936 | 47 | #1,004 | — | — |
| 1935 | 37 | #1,164 | — | — |
| 1934 | 35 | #1,206 | — | — |
| 1933 | 37 | #1,158 | — | — |
| 1932 | 27 | #1,448 | — | — |
| 1931 | 38 | #1,163 | — | — |
| 1930 | 23 | #1,661 | — | — |
| 1929 | 34 | #1,282 | — | — |
| 1928 | 47 | #1,098 | — | — |
| 1927 | 41 | #1,213 | — | — |
| 1926 | 29 | #1,514 | — | — |
| 1925 | 40 | #1,225 | — | — |
| 1924 | 35 | #1,382 | — | — |
| 1923 | 48 | #1,101 | — | — |
| 1922 | 51 | #1,059 | — | — |
| 1921 | 37 | #1,276 | — | — |
| 1920 | 45 | #1,120 | — | — |
| 1919 | 41 | #1,156 | — | — |
| 1918 | 40 | #1,184 | — | — |
| 1917 | 36 | #1,207 | — | — |
| 1916 | 41 | #1,100 | — | — |
| 1915 | 37 | #1,115 | — | — |
| 1914 | 28 | #1,148 | — | — |
| 1913 | 18 | #1,359 | — | — |
| 1912 | 17 | #1,298 | — | — |
| 1911 | 16 | #1,113 | — | — |
| 1910 | 7 | #1,937 | — | — |
| 1909 | 8 | #1,611 | — | — |
| 1908 | 12 | #1,207 | — | — |
| 1907 | 6 | #1,830 | — | — |
| 1906 | 9 | #1,326 | — | — |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,701 | — | — |
| 1904 | 13 | #1,003 | — | — |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,682 | — | — |
| 1900 | 9 | #1,322 | — | — |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,604 | — | — |
| 1898 | 8 | #1,263 | — | — |
| 1897 | 8 | #1,168 | — | — |
| 1895 | 7 | #1,301 | — | — |
| 1894 | 8 | #1,137 | — | — |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,454 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).