Areatha
Areatha was last recorded in 1982, when 6 babies were given it; 382 Americans have been recorded with it between 1913 and 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Areatha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Areatha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #9,303, in 1982; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
19 babies in 1925, the peak
Areatha peaked in 1925, when 19 girls were given it, #2,025 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 6 | #9,303 | 3.5 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,304 | 3.1 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,074 | 6.1 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,526 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,293 | 5.5 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,492 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,536 | 7.9 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,433 | 3.6 |
| 1970 | 15 | #3,879 | 8.6 |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,786 | 8.3 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | 17 | #3,175 | 10.4 |
| 1967 | 13 | #3,666 | 7.9 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,643 | 4.7 |
| 1963 | 12 | #3,811 | 6.2 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,550 | 4.6 |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,619 | 2.5 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,423 | 2.5 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,648 | 4.0 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,478 | 4.0 |
| 1954 | 5 | #5,785 | 2.6 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,247 | 4.3 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,339 | 4.1 |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,696 | 3.5 |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,681 | 3.5 |
| 1947 | 6 | #4,781 | 3.4 |
| 1941 | 9 | #3,036 | 7.4 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,522 | 6.1 |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,156 | 7.3 |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,740 | 9.5 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,316 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,422 | 6.9 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,584 | 6.6 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,700 | 6.3 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,764 | 6.1 |
| 1927 | 10 | #3,065 | 8.4 |
| 1926 | 14 | #2,480 | 11.8 |
| 1925 | 19 | #2,025 | 15.6 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,475 | 4.8 |
| 1923 | 12 | #2,737 | 9.9 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,056 | 4.2 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,420 | 7.3 |
| 1919 | 7 | #3,841 | 6.2 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,115 | 5.5 |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,274 | 7.7 |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,847 | 9.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Areatha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Areatha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Areatha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Areatha, and how old are they?
An estimated 202 Americans named Areatha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (53% of everyone recorded); the median is 59 years old and half are between 54 and 70. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 201 people named Areatha (199 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 229 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 4 names spelled alike, given to 6,803 babies since 1880, Areatha is the third most given (5.6% of them).
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 Areatha and names like it
- Compare Areatha and ArethaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sAreatha peaked in 1925.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Areatha since 1910.
- The top names of 1925The year the most babies were named Areatha.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Areatha alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with AMost given first.