Aletta
The girl's name Aletta has been in the national records since 1892, with 1,111 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 5,554th. About 730 Alettas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 45.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Aletta
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,111
- Estimated living today
- 730
- Median age today
- 45
- Peak year
- 1935
- Best rank
- 1,162nd
- Rank in 2025
- 5,554th
- First recorded
- 1892
How old the living Alettas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,111 babies given the name since 1892, about 730 are alive — 65 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1980 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Germanic languages
From a gml diminutive form of Adelheid, related to English Adelaide and Alice.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Alettas
- Aletta Jacobs (1854–1929)Dutch physician and feminist, editor
- Aletta Ocean (born 1987)pornographic performer
- Aletta van Manen (born 1958)field hockey player
People named Aletta with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Aletta is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1935
The most popular girls’ names the year Aletta peaked:
Aletta elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Aletta | 12 | 4,050th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Aletta among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Aletta | 2,306 | 4,869 |
| Finland girls | Aletta | 38 | 170 |
| the Netherlands boys | Aletta | — | 15 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Aletta against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.