Aletta
About Aletta
A form of Adelaide (and therefore related to Alice, too) used in the Netherlands. The country's first female physician was Aletta Jacobs. In the USA, Aletta is rare, but on a slight upward trend. It fits perfectly into the sweet spot of being deep-rooted and straightforward, yet barely used, and has Etta and Lettie as potential nicknames.
Pronounced uh-LET-uh.
As of October 2026, Aletta ranked #5565 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #1165 in 1935.
Editor's take: The name Aletta is a girl's name of Dutch origin meaning "noble, nobility".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | #4,111 | 35 | 21.6 |
| 2025 | — | 0 | 0 |
Similar names
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- Nerea
- Viera
- Sowena
- Almira
- Maija
- Zahava
- Nunzia
- Meredy
- Evelia
- Viveka
- Anka
- Vaela
- Dervla
- Melis
- Alida
- Samphire
- Ethnea
- Shiri
- Morwen
- Zelmira
Aletta on lists
Famous Alettas
- Aletta Jacobs
first woman to complete a university course in the Netherlands
- Aletta van Manen
Dutch hockey player
- Aletta Ocean
Hungarian adult film actress
- Anne Alida "Aletta" de Frey
Dutch copyist, drawer and painter
- Aletta Hanemans
Dutch brewer of the Hoeffijser; wife of the mayor of Haarlem, Jacob Pietersz Olycan
Variations & nicknames
- AletteFrench