Althea

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Althea: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Althea: Recorded since 1996, its highest recorded position is #898, reached in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
30times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#898highest recorded position
6groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3126
1997	#3174
1999	#2189
2000	#3912
2001	#3262
2002	#3409
2003	#3099
2004	#2278
2005	#3382
2006	#2509
2007	#2895
2008	#3397
2009	#1909
2010	#2843
2011	#2636
2012	#2969
2013	#2887
2014	#1702
2015	#1497
2016	#1749
2017	#2090
2018	#1649
2019	#1349
2020	#1773
2021	#1128
2022	#1767
2023	#1525
2024	#1449

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

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What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 28 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #898 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1449 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #3126 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2012–2024
Highest recorded position: #898 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2024 (recorded 2012–2024).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1449 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Althea appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 28 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 324 births with the name.

Althea across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Althea's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#3126 (1996)	#1128 (2021)	#1449 (2024)	28 of 29	324 (1996–2024)	30 (2021)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#907 (2012)	#898 (2024)	#898 (2024)	2 of 13	6 (2012–2024)	3 (2012)

Althea by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Althea in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	15	3 of 10	5
2000s	63	10 of 10	6
2010s	142	10 of 10	14
2020sbusiest	104	5 of 10	21

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 21 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Althea appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #898 in Republic of Ireland in 2024.

Althea's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#1449	22	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1525	20	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1767	16	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1128	30	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1773	16	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1349	23	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1649	18	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2090	13	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1749	17	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1497	21	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1702	17	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#2887	8	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2969	8	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2636	9	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2843	8	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1909	13	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3397	6	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2895	7	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2509	8	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#3382	5	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2278	8	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#3099	5	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#3409	4	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3262	4	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3912	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#2189	7	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3174	4	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3126	4	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#898	3	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#907	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 28 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #898, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 30 births, registered in England and Wales in 2021.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2012, and 16 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Angie · #898, 28y
Ania · #898, 29y
Kenza · #898, 29y
Liah · #898, 25y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Akbar · #898, 29y
Angie · #898, 28y
Ania · #898, 29y
Insiya · #898, 11y

Althea was ranked #898 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Althea and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Althea without appearing here.

Althea moved ahead of

Yvonne Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2090 and #2090 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #1649 and #5666.
Siobhán Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2090 and #1817 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #1649 and #4684.
Belinda Compare
In 2013 they stood at #2887 and #2062 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #1702 and #4684.
Kristine Compare
In 2012 they stood at #2969 and #2969 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #2887 and #5742.

Moved ahead of Althea

Meabh Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1128 and #1286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #1767 and #1142.
Eabha Compare
In 2019 they stood at #1349 and #2458 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1773 and #1313.
Blake Compare
In 2014 they stood at #1702 and #2203 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #1497 and #1240.
Fiadh Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2090 and #2502 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #1649 and #1436.

Moved the opposite way to Althea

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Althea went from #3126 to #1449 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Althea went from #3126 to #1449 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Althea went from #3126 to #1449 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Althea went from #3126 to #1449 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Althea

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Althea went from #3126 to #1449 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Althea went from #3126 to #1449 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Althea went from #3126 to #1449 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Althea went from #3126 to #1449 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #898 in Republic of Ireland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Althea

Althea at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Althea across 2 official records

Althea by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Althea appears in

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Althea at a glance

Althea across 2 official records

Althea by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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