Meaning not yet researched.
Althea: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 171 in 2025. Its best rank was #356 in 1920.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #356 in 1920; #1,299 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Althea in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,299 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1920, at #356.
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Althea: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 171 girls in 2025. Peak: #356 in 1920 · most girls in one year: 388 (1956).
In 2025, 171 US girls were named Althea, making it the 1,299th most common girls’ name of the year, up 99 places from #1,398 in 2024. That is 11 more than the 160 girls named Althea in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #356, reached in 1920. The most girls given the name in a single year was 388, in 1956. For comparison, it was #1,644 in 2015 and #462 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Althea in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 9 babies with the name. In all, 17,985 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 3,015 babies named Althea.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,585 US girls were named Althea; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 175. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,399 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Althea ranked highest in Oregon in 2025, at #628 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Altie, Althia and Altheia are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Ally.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Old English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Altie (660), Althia (215), Altheia (72), Altia (18), Alteo (12), Altee (11), Altea (7).
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.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 36 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon | 5 | #628 | — |
| Massachusetts | 8 | #632 | — |
| Colorado | 7 | #711 | #780 |
| Ohio | 13 | #714 | #1,461 |
| Minnesota | 6 | #739 | — |
| Michigan | 8 | #863 | — |
| Washington | 6 | #923 | #1,122 |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,118 | #1,241 |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,120 | — |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,145 | #1,234 |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,186 | — |
| New York | 10 | #1,317 | #1,977 |
| California | 15 | #1,496 | #2,162 |
| Florida | 5 | #2,172 | #1,264 |
| Texas | 5 | #3,320 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 171 | #1,299 | — | — |
| 2024 | 160 | #1,398 | — | — |
| 2023 | 167 | #1,348 | — | — |
| 2022 | 175 | #1,343 | — | — |
| 2021 | 145 | #1,476 | — | — |
| 2020 | 156 | #1,399 | — | — |
| 2019 | 167 | #1,355 | — | — |
| 2018 | 162 | #1,386 | — | — |
| 2017 | 154 | #1,460 | — | — |
| 2016 | 128 | #1,668 | — | — |
| 2015 | 130 | #1,644 | — | — |
| 2014 | 92 | #2,098 | — | — |
| 2013 | 101 | #1,955 | — | — |
| 2012 | 73 | #2,497 | — | — |
| 2011 | 72 | #2,511 | — | — |
| 2010 | 81 | #2,342 | — | — |
| 2009 | 75 | #2,511 | — | — |
| 2008 | 59 | #2,959 | — | — |
| 2007 | 57 | #3,051 | — | — |
| 2006 | 57 | #2,979 | — | — |
| 2005 | 68 | #2,527 | — | — |
| 2004 | 66 | #2,526 | — | — |
| 2003 | 69 | #2,394 | — | — |
| 2002 | 55 | #2,745 | — | — |
| 2001 | 53 | #2,767 | — | — |
| 2000 | 68 | #2,280 | — | — |
| 1999 | 61 | #2,405 | — | — |
| 1998 | 58 | #2,399 | — | — |
| 1997 | 51 | #2,515 | — | — |
| 1996 | 47 | #2,630 | — | — |
| 1995 | 40 | #2,934 | — | — |
| 1994 | 39 | #2,989 | — | — |
| 1993 | 51 | #2,452 | — | — |
| 1992 | 40 | #2,921 | — | — |
| 1991 | 50 | #2,486 | — | — |
| 1990 | 55 | #2,290 | — | — |
| 1989 | 70 | #1,873 | — | — |
| 1988 | 55 | #2,093 | — | — |
| 1987 | 47 | #2,276 | — | — |
| 1986 | 50 | #2,117 | — | — |
| 1985 | 44 | #2,283 | — | — |
| 1984 | 70 | #1,593 | — | — |
| 1983 | 49 | #2,047 | — | — |
| 1982 | 50 | #2,051 | — | — |
| 1981 | 88 | #1,396 | — | — |
| 1980 | 69 | #1,658 | — | — |
| 1979 | 70 | #1,605 | — | — |
| 1978 | 64 | #1,654 | — | — |
| 1977 | 77 | #1,440 | — | — |
| 1976 | 83 | #1,307 | — | — |
| 1975 | 76 | #1,381 | — | — |
| 1974 | 106 | #1,094 | — | — |
| 1973 | 95 | #1,151 | — | — |
| 1972 | 142 | #888 | — | — |
| 1971 | 139 | #931 | — | — |
| 1970 | 150 | #884 | — | — |
| 1969 | 155 | #826 | — | — |
| 1968 | 202 | #684 | — | — |
| 1967 | 211 | #659 | — | — |
| 1966 | 164 | #765 | — | — |
| 1965 | 213 | #674 | — | — |
| 1964 | 149 | #854 | — | — |
| 1963 | 133 | #912 | — | — |
| 1962 | 161 | #825 | — | — |
| 1961 | 187 | #761 | — | — |
| 1960 | 216 | #692 | — | — |
| 1959 | 217 | #681 | — | — |
| 1958 | 278 | #595 | — | — |
| 1957 | 352 | #509 | — | — |
| 1956 | 388 | #475 | — | — |
| 1955 | 248 | #580 | — | — |
| 1954 | 308 | #506 | — | — |
| 1953 | 254 | #546 | — | — |
| 1952 | 328 | #465 | — | — |
| 1951 | 333 | #455 | — | — |
| 1950 | 309 | #462 | — | — |
| 1949 | 235 | #545 | — | — |
| 1948 | 126 | #761 | — | — |
| 1947 | 118 | #803 | — | — |
| 1946 | 125 | #723 | — | — |
| 1945 | 110 | #713 | — | — |
| 1944 | 111 | #715 | — | — |
| 1943 | 115 | #718 | — | — |
| 1942 | 116 | #689 | — | — |
| 1941 | 118 | #652 | — | — |
| 1940 | 101 | #693 | — | — |
| 1939 | 113 | #643 | — | — |
| 1938 | 119 | #629 | — | — |
| 1937 | 148 | #551 | — | — |
| 1936 | 124 | #593 | — | — |
| 1935 | 141 | #540 | — | — |
| 1934 | 165 | #501 | — | — |
| 1933 | 163 | #501 | — | — |
| 1932 | 164 | #510 | — | — |
| 1931 | 160 | #517 | — | — |
| 1930 | 175 | #506 | — | — |
| 1929 | 198 | #480 | — | — |
| 1928 | 196 | #492 | — | — |
| 1927 | 263 | #425 | — | — |
| 1926 | 226 | #449 | — | — |
| 1925 | 258 | #428 | — | — |
| 1924 | 275 | #421 | 5 | #4,366 |
| 1923 | 254 | #421 | — | — |
| 1922 | 274 | #399 | — | — |
| 1921 | 311 | #379 | — | — |
| 1920 | 336 | #356 | — | — |
| 1919 | 261 | #399 | — | — |
| 1918 | 318 | #363 | — | — |
| 1917 | 265 | #388 | — | — |
| 1916 | 265 | #386 | — | — |
| 1915 | 266 | #368 | — | — |
| 1914 | 199 | #378 | — | — |
| 1913 | 141 | #416 | — | — |
| 1912 | 131 | #404 | — | — |
| 1911 | 77 | #468 | — | — |
| 1910 | 91 | #412 | — | — |
| 1909 | 75 | #426 | — | — |
| 1908 | 66 | #444 | — | — |
| 1907 | 48 | #517 | — | — |
| 1906 | 53 | #465 | — | — |
| 1905 | 46 | #497 | — | — |
| 1904 | 46 | #484 | — | — |
| 1903 | 49 | #457 | — | — |
| 1902 | 41 | #492 | — | — |
| 1901 | 37 | #499 | — | — |
| 1900 | 35 | #590 | — | — |
| 1899 | 41 | #456 | — | — |
| 1898 | 33 | #555 | — | — |
| 1897 | 29 | #555 | — | — |
| 1896 | 36 | #487 | — | — |
| 1895 | 32 | #520 | — | — |
| 1894 | 42 | #430 | — | — |
| 1893 | 23 | #594 | — | — |
| 1892 | 29 | #503 | — | — |
| 1891 | 39 | #395 | — | — |
| 1890 | 19 | #600 | — | — |
| 1889 | 30 | #441 | — | — |
| 1888 | 21 | #550 | — | — |
| 1887 | 18 | #525 | — | — |
| 1886 | 19 | #509 | — | — |
| 1885 | 14 | #576 | — | — |
| 1884 | 13 | #584 | — | — |
| 1883 | 13 | #537 | — | — |
| 1882 | 11 | #561 | — | — |
| 1881 | 8 | #625 | — | — |
| 1880 | 9 | #581 | — | — |
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).