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How popular is the name Althea?
Births per year, rank history and how many Altheas are alive today.
Althea (female) is a rare girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 1362nd in 2025 and given to 23 babies. The name peaked in 2021, when 30 babies were given the name, the 1128th most popular that year.
The Althea you are most likely to meet is around 6 years old. Half of all Altheas born in England and Wales are between 5 and 17, and there are at least 370 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Althea - on average, only one in every 852 such rooms contains a Althea.
How many babies are named Althea each year?
Where does Althea rank among girls' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Althea most popular?
Althea peaked in 2021, when 30 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Althea?
At least 370 people named Althea born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Althea?
Most living Altheas are between 5 and 17; the most common age is about 6.
Is Althea becoming more or less popular?
Broadly steady in recent years.