Aletta
Aletta was given to 22 girls in 2025, #5,564 among girls’ names; 1,111 Americans have been recorded with it since 1892 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aletta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Aletta mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Aletta is “a female given name from the Germanic languages.”
From a Middle Low German diminutive form of Adelheid, related to English Adelaide and Alice.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Aletta?
#5,564 among girls’ names, 2025
Aletta rose from #8,963 in 2015 to #5,564 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 6.7 to 13.7 per million.
37 babies in 1935, the peak
Aletta peaked in 1935, when 37 girls were given it, #1,165 among girls’ names. The 22 births of 2025 are 59% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #5,564 | 13.7 |
| 2024 | 35 | #4,118 | 21.6 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,414 | 11.2 |
| 2022 | 26 | #5,030 | 15.9 |
| 2021 | 22 | #5,580 | 13.4 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,568 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,711 | 10.1 |
| 2018 | 14 | #7,777 | 8.2 |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,194 | 14.5 |
| 2016 | 17 | #6,914 | 9.6 |
Every recorded year (100)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 12 | #8,963 | 6.7 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,549 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,056 | 6.8 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,650 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,414 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,283 | 7.9 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,494 | 4.9 |
| 2008 | 7 | #13,908 | 3.7 |
| 2007 | 5 | #17,756 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,072 | 3.8 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,128 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,488 | 2.8 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,204 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 5 | #11,822 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 7 | #8,791 | 4.0 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,326 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,452 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,483 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 11 | #5,893 | 6.6 |
| 1980 | 9 | #6,802 | 5.4 |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,757 | 6.9 |
| 1978 | 8 | #6,961 | 5.2 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,660 | 9.1 |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,143 | 10.3 |
| 1974 | 7 | #6,908 | 4.8 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,583 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,527 | 7.9 |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,626 | 4.2 |
| 1970 | 17 | #3,578 | 9.7 |
| 1969 | 15 | #3,622 | 8.9 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,257 | 3.7 |
| 1966 | 11 | #3,961 | 6.5 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,203 | 5.7 |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,100 | 5.8 |
| 1963 | 8 | #4,899 | 4.2 |
| 1962 | 6 | #5,864 | 3.1 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,315 | 3.5 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,172 | 3.5 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,037 | 3.5 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,525 | 4.0 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,537 | 3.9 |
| 1956 | 10 | #3,913 | 5.0 |
| 1955 | 5 | #5,837 | 2.6 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,658 | 3.6 |
| 1953 | 17 | #2,596 | 9.0 |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,811 | 8.1 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,390 | 3.9 |
| 1950 | 15 | #2,653 | 8.8 |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,002 | 7.0 |
| 1948 | 20 | #2,187 | 11.8 |
| 1947 | 12 | #3,060 | 6.8 |
| 1946 | 12 | #2,883 | 7.6 |
| 1945 | 13 | #2,459 | 9.9 |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,140 | 6.8 |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,253 | 6.5 |
| 1942 | 16 | #2,215 | 11.8 |
| 1941 | 12 | #2,531 | 9.9 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,504 | 6.1 |
| 1939 | 11 | #2,593 | 10.0 |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,578 | 10.0 |
| 1937 | 13 | #2,318 | 12.2 |
| 1936 | 28 | #1,375 | 26.9 |
| 1935 | 37 | #1,165 | 35.3 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,293 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 10 | #2,689 | 9.9 |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,276 | 7.5 |
| 1931 | 6 | #3,854 | 5.6 |
| 1930 | 10 | #2,846 | 8.9 |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,061 | 5.4 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,199 | 5.2 |
| 1927 | 12 | #2,701 | 10.1 |
| 1926 | 12 | #2,708 | 10.1 |
| 1925 | 15 | #2,379 | 12.3 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,666 | 6.4 |
| 1923 | 15 | #2,369 | 12.4 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,381 | 7.5 |
| 1921 | 11 | #2,948 | 8.9 |
| 1920 | 11 | #2,901 | 9.2 |
| 1919 | 13 | #2,518 | 11.5 |
| 1918 | 17 | #2,103 | 14.7 |
| 1917 | 9 | #3,095 | 8.3 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,556 | 6.7 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,139 | 8.1 |
| 1914 | 7 | #2,882 | 9.2 |
| 1912 | 5 | #2,983 | 9.0 |
| 1904 | 5 | #1,888 | 18.2 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,605 | 21.5 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,558 | 21.3 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,590 | 21.0 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,456 | 23.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Aletta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aletta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 100 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Aletta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aletta, and how old are they?
An estimated 717 Americans named Aletta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (65% of everyone recorded); the median is 45 years old and half are between 9 and 67. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 733 people named Aletta (733 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 650 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 39,595 babies since 1880, Aletta is the fourth most given (2.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 22 of their 147 babies (15%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
More about Aletta and names like it
- Compare Aletta and AltaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sAletta peaked in 1935.
- Missouri’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aletta since 1910.
- Germanic namesWiktionary’s origin for Aletta: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1935The year the most babies were named Aletta.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Aletta alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.