girls:
3.4k births since 1880
#2987 (48th percentile)
boys:
21 births since 1916
#4565 (0th percentile)
overall:
3.4k births since 1880
#4697 (39th percentile)
The name Altha is the #4,697 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,386 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 39.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 39.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,987 (47.7% percentile) for all time with 3,365 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,565 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 21 births since 1916.
Altha has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1916 for boys). Birth data for Altha is available in 91 out of the 97 years between 1880 and 1976 (91 years for girls and 4 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Altha has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.4% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Altha reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 16.3% percentile (ranked #480) with 90 births per million. The name was most common in 1884, with 160 births per million (ranked 7.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1976.
For boys, Altha reached its peak popularity in 1923, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #550) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1916, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1929.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Altha".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Altha. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 52.6% confident that Altha is pronounced as AL-thuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AWL-thuh, at 23.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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