Althea
Origin
Greek
Syllables
3
Peak era
1890s/2020s
Today
▬ Steady
Meaning
healer, healing power
Famously borne by trailblazing champion Althea Gibson.
Popularity, 1890–2024
peak 1890s2020s
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Althea peaked in the 1890s and the 2020s in nearly equal measure.
The Althea deep dive
Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Althea truly comes from, how it traveled, and what a century of records reveals. If you have grown a tree on nametree, it also considers how Althea fits with your family’s names and surname.
Where Althea travels
Filipino · A major contemporary favorite for girls in the Philippines, repeatedly appearing near the top of national civil-registry lists.
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