Altha
Altha was last recorded in 1976, when 6 babies were given it; 3,386 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Altha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Altha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #8,187, in 1976; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
103 babies in 1916, the peak
Altha peaked in 1916, when 103 babies were given it (98 girls, #692 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 6 | #8,187 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,018 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,088 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 7 | #5,986 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,461 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 13 | #3,552 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,103 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 15 | #3,339 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,016 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,248 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (91)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 12 | #3,694 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 12 | #3,621 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 15 | #3,089 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 18 | #2,730 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 19 | #2,623 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 20 | #2,476 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 14 | #3,022 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 21 | #2,300 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 22 | #2,202 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 22 | #2,118 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 21 | #2,123 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 21 | #2,138 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 31 | #1,668 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 35 | #1,602 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 21 | #2,028 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 25 | #1,660 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 20 | #1,916 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 34 | #1,422 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 25 | #1,667 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 39 | #1,206 | 0.03 |
| 1940 | 36 | #1,219 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 39 | #1,160 | 0.04 |
| 1938 | 33 | #1,268 | 0.03 |
| 1937 | 46 | #1,048 | 0.04 |
| 1936 | 29 | #1,346 | 0.03 |
| 1935 | 43 | #1,055 | 0.04 |
| 1934 | 51 | #966 | 0.05 |
| 1933 | 57 | #895 | 0.06 |
| 1932 | 55 | #953 | 0.05 |
| 1931 | 51 | #971 | 0.05 |
| 1930 | 55 | #993 | 0.05 |
| 1929 | 74 | #822 | 0.07 |
| 1928 | 66 | #903 | 0.06 |
| 1927 | 65 | #924 | 0.05 |
| 1926 | 76 | #844 | 0.06 |
| 1925 | 88 | #786 | 0.07 |
| 1924 | 93 | #774 | 0.07 |
| 1923 | 91 | #760 | 0.08 |
| 1922 | 86 | #784 | 0.07 |
| 1921 | 98 | #737 | 0.08 |
| 1920 | 76 | #825 | 0.06 |
| 1919 | 89 | #743 | 0.08 |
| 1918 | 76 | #821 | 0.07 |
| 1917 | 99 | #691 | 0.09 |
| 1916 | 98 | #692 | 0.09 |
| 1915 | 95 | #675 | 0.10 |
| 1914 | 76 | #666 | 0.10 |
| 1913 | 51 | #738 | 0.08 |
| 1912 | 58 | #659 | 0.10 |
| 1911 | 50 | #605 | 0.12 |
| 1910 | 46 | #620 | 0.12 |
| 1909 | 46 | #566 | 0.13 |
| 1908 | 31 | #698 | 0.09 |
| 1907 | 39 | #589 | 0.12 |
| 1906 | 19 | #845 | 0.06 |
| 1905 | 35 | #587 | 0.12 |
| 1904 | 35 | #570 | 0.13 |
| 1903 | 26 | #656 | 0.10 |
| 1902 | 35 | #546 | 0.13 |
| 1901 | 33 | #530 | 0.14 |
| 1900 | 32 | #624 | 0.11 |
| 1899 | 34 | #507 | 0.15 |
| 1898 | 21 | #720 | 0.08 |
| 1897 | 30 | #538 | 0.13 |
| 1896 | 33 | #514 | 0.14 |
| 1895 | 29 | #547 | 0.12 |
| 1894 | 27 | #557 | 0.12 |
| 1893 | 22 | #614 | 0.10 |
| 1892 | 32 | #480 | 0.15 |
| 1891 | 28 | #484 | 0.15 |
| 1890 | 26 | #509 | 0.14 |
| 1889 | 18 | #600 | 0.10 |
| 1888 | 21 | #549 | 0.12 |
| 1887 | 13 | #635 | 0.09 |
| 1886 | 23 | #453 | 0.16 |
| 1885 | 16 | #543 | 0.12 |
| 1884 | 22 | #425 | 0.17 |
| 1883 | 13 | #536 | 0.12 |
| 1882 | 18 | #433 | 0.17 |
| 1881 | 11 | #506 | 0.12 |
| 1880 | 10 | #547 | 0.11 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Altha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Altha has been given almost only to girls: 21 boys in 91 years of records.
Girls and boys named Altha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Altha, and how old are they?
An estimated 505 Americans named Altha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (15% of everyone recorded); the median is 78 years old and half are between 69 and 85. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 693 people named Altha (660 women and girls, 33 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 723 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
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).
Where are babies named Altha born?
The states with the most babies named Altha are Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma, with 61% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Arkansas and Oklahoma are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 325 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Arkansas | 158 | not ranked | 3.3× |
| Oklahoma | 95 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Tennessee | 60 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Alabama | 46 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Louisiana | 41 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Mississippi | 39 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Kentucky | 38 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Missouri | 34 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 32 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Altha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Altha is most over-represented in Arkansas: since 1910 it was given 3.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Altha with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 36,929 babies since 1880, Altha is the fourth most given (9.2% of them). In 2025 none of their 234 babies recorded by SSA was a Altha (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Altha
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Altha and names like it
- Compare Altha and AltheaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sAltha peaked in 1916.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Altha since 1910.
- The top names of 1916The year the most babies were named Altha.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Altha alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with AMost given first.