Meaning not yet researched.
Alethea: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 54 in 2025. Its best rank was #522 in 1973.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #522 in 1973; #3,030 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Alethea in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,030 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1973, at #522.
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Alethea: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 54 girls in 2025. Peak: #522 in 1973 · most girls in one year: 322 (1973).
In 2025, 54 US girls were named Alethea, making it the 3,030th most common girls’ name of the year, down 369 places from #2,661 in 2024. That is 11 fewer than the 65 girls named Alethea in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #522, reached in 1973. That year also had the most girls given the name: 322. For comparison, it was #3,772 in 2015 and #1,602 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Alethea in 127 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1892 with 5 babies. In all, 4,968 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 1,215 babies named Alethea.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 574 US girls were named Alethea; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 81. In 2025 that was about 1 in 29,764 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Aletha (6,948 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Aletheia, Alithia and Alithea 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: Aletheia (890), Alithia (116), Alithea (89), Aleathea (83), Aleathia (68), Alathea (59), Alythia (39), Aleithia (6).
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 Alethea 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 | 54 | #3,030 | — | — |
| 2024 | 65 | #2,661 | — | — |
| 2023 | 74 | #2,415 | — | — |
| 2022 | 80 | #2,320 | — | — |
| 2021 | 81 | #2,268 | — | — |
| 2020 | 62 | #2,683 | — | — |
| 2019 | 51 | #3,131 | — | — |
| 2018 | 29 | #4,669 | — | — |
| 2017 | 50 | #3,192 | — | — |
| 2016 | 28 | #4,858 | — | — |
| 2015 | 40 | #3,772 | — | — |
| 2014 | 36 | #4,107 | — | — |
| 2013 | 40 | #3,785 | — | — |
| 2012 | 28 | #4,969 | — | — |
| 2011 | 33 | #4,361 | — | — |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,424 | — | — |
| 2009 | 26 | #5,387 | — | — |
| 2008 | 28 | #5,150 | — | — |
| 2007 | 34 | #4,384 | — | — |
| 2006 | 26 | #5,242 | — | — |
| 2005 | 27 | #4,834 | — | — |
| 2004 | 34 | #4,094 | — | — |
| 2003 | 38 | #3,660 | — | — |
| 2002 | 26 | #4,634 | — | — |
| 2001 | 34 | #3,788 | — | — |
| 2000 | 31 | #3,984 | — | — |
| 1999 | 23 | #4,721 | — | — |
| 1998 | 22 | #4,801 | — | — |
| 1997 | 24 | #4,376 | — | — |
| 1996 | 21 | #4,742 | — | — |
| 1995 | 25 | #4,101 | — | — |
| 1994 | 36 | #3,169 | — | — |
| 1993 | 26 | #3,989 | — | — |
| 1992 | 34 | #3,267 | — | — |
| 1991 | 34 | #3,208 | — | — |
| 1990 | 41 | #2,800 | — | — |
| 1989 | 48 | #2,409 | — | — |
| 1988 | 36 | #2,868 | — | — |
| 1987 | 54 | #2,044 | — | — |
| 1986 | 31 | #2,974 | — | — |
| 1985 | 43 | #2,317 | — | — |
| 1984 | 42 | #2,300 | — | — |
| 1983 | 54 | #1,907 | — | — |
| 1982 | 77 | #1,532 | — | — |
| 1981 | 72 | #1,615 | — | — |
| 1980 | 76 | #1,542 | — | — |
| 1979 | 68 | #1,645 | — | — |
| 1978 | 88 | #1,347 | — | — |
| 1977 | 79 | #1,414 | — | — |
| 1976 | 99 | #1,161 | — | — |
| 1975 | 101 | #1,145 | — | — |
| 1974 | 201 | #716 | — | — |
| 1973 | 322 | #522 | — | — |
| 1972 | 66 | #1,457 | — | — |
| 1971 | 104 | #1,125 | — | — |
| 1970 | 87 | #1,263 | — | — |
| 1969 | 75 | #1,303 | — | — |
| 1968 | 99 | #1,056 | — | — |
| 1967 | 52 | #1,560 | — | — |
| 1966 | 42 | #1,736 | — | — |
| 1965 | 65 | #1,366 | — | — |
| 1964 | 51 | #1,593 | — | — |
| 1963 | 67 | #1,352 | — | — |
| 1962 | 74 | #1,283 | — | — |
| 1961 | 71 | #1,319 | — | — |
| 1960 | 84 | #1,188 | — | — |
| 1959 | 59 | #1,396 | — | — |
| 1958 | 45 | #1,588 | — | — |
| 1957 | 46 | #1,590 | — | — |
| 1956 | 56 | #1,398 | — | — |
| 1955 | 58 | #1,320 | — | — |
| 1954 | 47 | #1,465 | — | — |
| 1953 | 37 | #1,623 | — | — |
| 1952 | 43 | #1,469 | — | — |
| 1951 | 39 | #1,505 | — | — |
| 1950 | 34 | #1,602 | — | — |
| 1949 | 26 | #1,883 | — | — |
| 1948 | 26 | #1,859 | — | — |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,639 | — | — |
| 1946 | 14 | #2,600 | — | — |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,602 | — | — |
| 1944 | 21 | #1,869 | — | — |
| 1943 | 14 | #2,448 | — | — |
| 1942 | 20 | #1,918 | — | — |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,669 | — | — |
| 1940 | 13 | #2,299 | — | — |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,743 | — | — |
| 1938 | 13 | #2,341 | — | — |
| 1937 | 14 | #2,197 | — | — |
| 1936 | 11 | #2,521 | — | — |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,736 | — | — |
| 1934 | 6 | #3,810 | — | — |
| 1933 | 19 | #1,775 | — | — |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,575 | — | — |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,231 | — | — |
| 1930 | 10 | #2,846 | — | — |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,398 | — | — |
| 1928 | 21 | #1,843 | — | — |
| 1927 | 11 | #2,863 | — | — |
| 1926 | 25 | #1,668 | — | — |
| 1925 | 17 | #2,195 | — | — |
| 1924 | 26 | #1,679 | — | — |
| 1923 | 17 | #2,173 | — | — |
| 1922 | 33 | #1,404 | — | — |
| 1921 | 23 | #1,822 | — | — |
| 1920 | 33 | #1,377 | — | — |
| 1919 | 18 | #1,990 | — | — |
| 1918 | 15 | #2,290 | — | — |
| 1917 | 21 | #1,708 | — | — |
| 1916 | 23 | #1,581 | — | — |
| 1915 | 22 | #1,571 | — | — |
| 1914 | 13 | #1,899 | — | — |
| 1913 | 16 | #1,467 | — | — |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,848 | — | — |
| 1911 | 7 | #1,961 | — | — |
| 1910 | 9 | #1,637 | — | — |
| 1909 | 7 | #1,768 | — | — |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,869 | — | — |
| 1907 | 6 | #1,831 | — | — |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,662 | — | — |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,599 | — | — |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,599 | — | — |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,605 | — | — |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,558 | — | — |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,589 | — | — |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,444 | — | — |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,455 | — | — |
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).