girls:
17.6k births since 1880
#1114 (81st percentile)
boys:
5 births since 1924
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
17.6k births since 1880
#1939 (75th percentile)
The name Althea is the #1,939 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 17,649 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 74.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 74.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,114 (80.5% percentile) for all time with 17,644 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1924.
Althea has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1924 for boys).
The name Althea has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 100.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Althea reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 44.5% percentile (ranked #338) with 270 births per million. The name was most common in 1920, with 270 births per million (ranked 44.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2008, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Althea ranks #789 for girls (16.7% percentile) with 93 births per million, which is 34.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Althea reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #554) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1924, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1924.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Althea".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Althea. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 58.1% confident that Althea is pronounced as al-THEE-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AL-thee-uh, at 23.3% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like AE0 L TH IY1 AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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