Alethea comes from the English / Greek tradition, meaning Truthful.
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How popular is Alethea?
1973peak year
Today, Alethea is rarely chosen — ranked well outside the top 1,000 (around #3194), with only about 56 babies given the name per year. But it wasn't always this way. At its peak in 1973, 322 babies were given the name (ranked #522 nationally). Its strongest stretch was the 1970s. Alethea has been trending upward in recent years. In all, around 4,913 babies have been registered as Alethea since 1880.
Year-by-year registrations1880–2024 · U.S. Social Security data
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