Aletta

Where Aletta comes from

From a Middle Low German diminutive form of Adelheid, related to English Adelaide and Alice.
— Wiktionary's entry for Aletta
  • Germanic
  • Vowel-ended
Aletta through the years
  1. 1892
    First appearance
    #1,450 among girls with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1935
    Peak, #1,162
    37 babies named Aletta, the most in any year.
  3. 1937
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #2,317.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from the Germanic languages.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.