Aléthea
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Aléthea is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: ° A learned coinage, not found before the 16th century.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 75K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 79K
- USUnited States1 in 93K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 314 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 34K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ghana, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Alethea in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 5 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
° A learned coinage, not found before the 16th century. It represents the Greek word alétheia ‘truth’, and seems to have arisen as a result of the Puritan enthusiasm for using terms for abstract virtues as girls’ names. See also pAlthea.
Sources 2
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Nordic Names
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Aléthea counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈7,000 est. | ≈1 in 200K | — | Alethea | 6 |
| US United States | — | 3,568 | 1 in 93K | 3.6K | Alethea | 314 |
| GH Ghana | #780 | ≈870 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Alethea | 11 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 79K | 3 | Alethea | 115 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 150K | — | Alethea | 2 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 75K | 1 | Alethea | 87 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Alethea | 34 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈73 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Alethea | 7 |
| GY Guyana | — | 17 | 1 in 44K | 17 | — | 2 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Aléthea mean, and where does it come from?
- ° A learned coinage, not found before the 16th century. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Nordic Names.
- Is Aléthea a male or female name?
- Aléthea is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Aléthea have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.0 thousand people named Aléthea in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alethea.
- How common is the name Aléthea?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,568 people named Aléthea in 2020, about 1 in 93 thousand residents.
- How common is Aléthea compared with other names?
- In Ghana, Aléthea is the 780th most common given name of 14,081 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/al%C3%A9theaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Aléthea” — the 780th most common given name in Ghana. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.