Aletheia
#2,895 for girls in 2025, 58 births
- Peak · girls
- 2020 · 66 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 890since 1973
Aletheia over time
Rank among girls' names. Aletheia has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,895 | 58 |
| 2024 | #2,930 | 56 |
| 2023 | #3,763 | 40 |
| 2022 | #3,365 | 47 |
| 2021 | #2,784 | 61 |
| 2020 | #2,580 | 66 |
| 2019 | #4,162 | 34 |
| 2018 | #3,789 | 39 |
| 2017 | #3,479 | 44 |
| 2016 | #3,523 | 44 |
| 2015 | #3,299 | 49 |
| 2014 | #4,003 | 37 |
| 2013 | #4,422 | 32 |
| 2012 | #5,253 | 26 |
| 2011 | #4,807 | 29 |
| 2010 | #6,904 | 18 |
| 2009 | #5,226 | 27 |
| 2008 | #5,955 | 23 |
| 2007 | #10,129 | 11 |
| 2006 | #7,868 | 15 |
| 2005 | #14,502 | 6 |
| 2004 | #7,077 | 16 |
| 2003 | #12,408 | 7 |
| 2002 | #12,187 | 7 |
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| 1999 | #11,385 | 7 |
| 1998 | #10,122 | 8 |
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| 1995 | #11,783 | 6 |
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| 1989 | #10,847 | 6 |
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| 1986 | #7,749 | 8 |
| 1985 | #10,677 | 5 |
| 1984 | #10,422 | 5 |
| 1983 | — | |
| 1982 | #6,371 | 10 |
| 1981 | — | |
| 1980 | #7,418 | 8 |
| 1979 | #9,010 | 6 |
| 1978 | #7,649 | 7 |
| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 |
| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 |
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| 1974 | #6,900 | 7 |
| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Aletheia! It came in at #8,423, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1975–1977, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Aletheia is popular in 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#2,970 · 1 in 33,953
Best ever in a state: #1,412 in North Carolina, 2021.
Show every state
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| California | #2,970 | 6 | 1 in 33,953 |
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See more about Aletheia
- 35 spots since 2024 (#2,930 → #2,895)
- 315 spots since 2020 (#2,580 → #2,895)
- 404 spots since 2015 (#3,299 → #2,895)
- Debuted 1973
- Peaked 2020 at #2,580 (66 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 24,493 girls born in 2020 were named Aletheia (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 27,711 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 39.6% of all girls named Aletheia (352) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 35 | #6,900 (1974) | #8,486 |
| 1980s | 42 | #6,371 (1982) | #8,914 |
| 1990s | 21 | #10,122 (1998) | #11,097 |
| 2000s | 112 | #5,226 (2009) | #9,419 |
| 2010s | 352 | #3,299 (2015) | #4,364 |
| 2020s | 328 | #2,580 (2020) | #3,053 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Aletheia in 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
More about 2016
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1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 40,273 of them was named Aletheia, which outranked 81.3% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,464Zahraa45
- #3,464Zari45
- #3,464Zayah45
- #3,523Aletheia44
- #3,523Addisen44
- #3,523Airam44
- #3,523Amena44
- #3,588Adamari43
- #3,588Alaynah43
- #3,588Aline43
Tied with 64 names at #3,523; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.