How rare is the name Althea?

10,948 people in the United States have the first name Althea, about 1 in 27,588. It ranks #2,327 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

ALTHEA

#2,327

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
10,948
About
1 in 27,588
This common or more
79.4%
Who bears it

Of the 10,948 people named Althea, 47.8% reported their origin as Black, 38.9% as White and 5.4% as Asian or Pacific Islander. Virtually all are female (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Althea peaked in 1956, when 388 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1956
Births that year
388
In 2025*
171 ▼56%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 17,985 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Althea by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1910s, when it ranked #721. The largest share of babies named Althea, 26%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.

1880s#981156
1890s#804323
1900s#758496
1910s#7212,014
1920s#7762,596
1930s#9901,472
1940s#1,2321,275
1950s#9413,015
1960s#1,3241,791
1970s#1,9571,002
1980s#3,053592
1990s#4,300492
2000s#4,603627
2010s#3,2261,160
2020s#2,573974
Before 19012.9%
Greatest Generation 1901–2726%
Silent Generation 1928–4514.1%
Baby boom 1946–6424.8%
Generation X 1965–8011.2%
Millennials 1981–964.7%
Generation Z 1997–125.7%
2013 and later10.6%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Althea is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Althea has been most common in Maine (6.7×), Louisiana (4.8×), and Pennsylvania (2.3×), and least common in Iowa (0.23×).

11,215 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Althea

#2,325 Madyson · 10,969#2,326 Jazlyn · 10,965#2,328 Ember · 10,925#2,329 Kathrine · 10,914

Spelled almost the same

5 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Althea, most common first.

#4,981 Alethea · 3,568#16,325 Altha · 693#28,872 Althia · 309#44,535 Alithea · 155#50,309 Altheia · 120

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