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Altha

The girl's name Altha has been in the national records since 1880, with 3,386 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 1976. About 530 Althas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 77.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Altha boys named Altha

By the numbers

Total US births
3,386
Estimated living today
530
Median age today
77
Peak year
1917
Best rank
690th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1880
Girls / boys
3,365 / 21

How old the living Althas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 3,386 babies given the name since 1880, about 530 are alive — 16 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1948 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 Altha is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Altha is most concentrated in Arkansas (15.4×), Oklahoma (7.3×), Texas (4.5×), Mississippi (3.2×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1917

The most popular girls’ names the year Altha peaked:

All the names of 1917

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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.