Altheia
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/əlθiːə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Altheia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 125K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 2.8M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 25 (measured from records)
- 1 in 125K (inferred from the name graph)
120 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Altheia 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 120 | 1 in 2.8M | 120 | Altheia | 14 |
| GY Guyana | 6 | 1 in 125K | 6 | — | — |
| PH Philippines | — | — | — | Altheia | 11 |
| BR Brazil | — | — | 38 | Altheia | 25 |
| NL Netherlands | — | — | listed | — | — |
120 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; the babynamen-king-2020 register. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Altheia is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of alteia.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 120 | #50,309 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1965 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1956 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1968 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1967 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1957 | 7 | — |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 6 | #588 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1960 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1953 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1952 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1951 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1981 | 5 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Altheia?
- A machine transcription gives /əlθiːə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Altheia a male or female name?
- Altheia 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 Altheia have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 120 people named Altheia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled altheia.
- Where is Altheia most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Altheia is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 125 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Altheia?
- In the United States, the national register counted 120 people named Altheia in 2020, about 1 in 2.8 million residents.
What do you want to know about Altheia?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/altheiaThe 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, “Altheia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.