Girl
Letha
Letha is a girl's name meaning "Greek aletheia, truth", drawing on Greek roots. It had its heyday in the 1920s and has mostly fallen out of use since. Today, it is on the rarer side without being unusual in the registry. Few names stick around this long: it shows up across almost the entire twelve-decade span this registry covers.
EtymologyShort for Aletha/Alethea
GreekGreek "aletheia" – "truth"
Births by decade
1900s
1,727
1910s
3,616
1920s
3,780
1930s
2,344
1940s
1,739
1950s
1,663
1960s
1,510
1970s
672
1980s
300
1990s
126
2000s
46
2010s
45
Peaked in the 1920s · 17,568 total U.S. births since 1900