Girl
Aretha
The name Aretha carries the meaning "virtue, excellence". It belongs mostly to the 1960s at this point. These days, it is one of the rarer names on record. It has quietly persisted through most of the last century of American birth records.
GreekGreek "arete"
EtymologyMeaning "virtue, excellence"
Births by decade
1900s
64
1910s
222
1920s
344
1930s
339
1940s
315
1950s
355
1960s
2,008
1970s
1,441
1980s
368
1990s
123
2000s
30
2010s
23
Peaked in the 1960s · 5,632 total U.S. births since 1900