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Alethea
Say it: uh-LEE-thee-uh
Meaning
From Greek alētheia 'truth'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
A 17th-century English Protestant virtue name.
Its wave through time
A fashion of the 1970s
In the United States
- 4,610 babies given this name since 1892
- At its height in 1973, about 1 in 4,500 girls
- 62 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Aletha
Famous bearers
- Alethea Howard, Countess of Arundel
Names worth a look
Where this comes from
- Parish baptism registers
- Royal and noble genealogies
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.