🔥Althea
Greek
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Updated Wed Apr 17 2024
Althea Origin and Meaning
The name Althea is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "with healing power".
Althea is a poetic, almost ethereal name found in Greek myth and pastoral poetry, associated in modern times with the great tennis player Althea Gibson, the first African-American to win at Wimbledon.
Althea appears in Greek mythology as the mother of the hero Meleager and was revived by the seventeenth-century poet Richard Lovelace as a poetic pseudonym for his beloved.
These days, parents would also appreciate the short form Thea.
Althea is the most common girl name in the Philippines.
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Famous People Named Althea
- Althea GibsonAmerican tennis player
- Althea HarperAmerican fashion designer & former "Project Runway" contestant
- Althea Rae Janairobirth name of Tia Carrere, American actress
- Althea FlyntAmerican wife and co,publisher of Hustler founder Larry Flynt
- Althea Gyles (born Margaret Alethea Gyles)Irish poet
- Althea Isabelle Sophie de Ligne de la Trémoïlle (b. 2010)daughter of actress Isabella Orsini & Prince Edouard de Ligne
Althea in Pop Culture
- Althea GellarRoss and Monica's grandmother on TV's 'Friends'
- Althea TibbsVirgil's wife on TV's 'In the Heat of the Night'
- Altheamain character in 'The Last Year' series by Trisha Leigh
- Althea Cartermain character in "Althea and Oliver" by Cristina Morocco
- Greek althaea = 'marsh mallow'i.e. the bushy shrub which is noted for its healing powers. The Greek word derives from the verb althein 'to heal'.
- 'To Altheafrom Prison," poem by Richard Lovelace
- 'Althea' song by the Grateful Dead
- Altheaa character who appeared in "Hollow City", the second installment of Ransom Riggs' "Peculiar Children" series
- Altheaa character on "Fear the Walking Dead"