Althea

Where Althea comes from

From Althaia or Althaea of Greek mythology, from Ancient Greek Ἀλθαία (Althaía).
— Wiktionary's entry for Althea
  • Ancient Greek
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #580 among girls — 9 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1920
    Peak, #356
    336 babies named Althea — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1927
    Althea Gibson born
    American tennis player
  4. 1931
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #517.
  5. 1996
    Althea Reinhardt born
    Danish handball player
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Namesakes
  • Althea Gibson · American tennis player, 1927–2003
  • Althea Reinhardt · Danish handball player, born 1996
  • Althea Flynt · Magazine publisher, 1953–1987
  • Althea Sherman · American ornithologist, artist and educator, 1853–1943
  • Althea Garrison · American politician, born 1940

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.