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Popularity of the baby name Aleeta


Posts that mention the name Aleeta

Where did the baby name Devara come from in 1967?

The name Devara was a one-hit wonder in the U.S. baby name data back in 1967:

  • 1969: unlisted
  • 1968: unlisted
  • 1967: 7 baby girls named Devara [debut]
  • 1966: unlisted
  • 1965: unlisted

Where did it come from?

Celebrity gossip…plus a typo. :)

In early 1967, newspapers reported that TV actor Vince Edwards was going to take his ex-wife, actress Kathy Kersh, to court because she “[made] it inconvenient for him to visit their 14-month-old daughter, Devara.”

This relatively minor item landed on the front page of certain (smaller) newspapers.

As we saw the other day, though, their daughter’s first name was actually Devera — making “Devara” yet another baby name inspired by a typo. (Others include Aleeta, Bedar, Clintonia, Glenalee, Kior, Mattlock, Rainelle, Reeshemah, and Terria.)

What are your thoughts on the name Devara? Do you like it more or less than Devera?

Source: “Wants His Ex-Wife Punished.” Salina Journal 15 Mar. 1967: 1.

What gave the baby name Aleeta a boost in 1933?

The characters Aleeta and Spud from the comic strip "Tim Tyler's Luck" (1928-1996)
Aleeta and Spud

In 1933, the rare baby name Aleeta saw an isolated spike in usage:

  • 1935: unlisted
  • 1934: unlisted
  • 1933: 17 baby girls named Aleeta [peak]
  • 1932: unlisted
  • 1931: unlisted

What gave it a boost that year?

My guess is Princess Aleeta, a character featured in the comic strip Tim Tyler’s Luck in 1933 (from April to October).

In Aleeta’s storyline, which was set in Africa, titular character Tim Tyler (and his friend Spud) were forced to join the “jungle army” of sinister Emperor Karlos. Here’s how Spud described the army:

They raid and capture caravans, safaris an’ tradin’ posts and steal gold, guns, clothes an’ food!

Emperor Karlos had arranged for his daughter Aleeta to marry the villainous Captain Dumont, but the wedding ceremony was interrupted by the arrival of the French Foreign Legion. A battle ensued, after which Karlos’ army was defeated and Aleeta was free to marry the man she loved (Colonel Paul Stagg).

What are your thoughts on the name Aleeta?

P.S. A real-life Aleeta — Aleeta Fleming, a “young farm wife” from Ohio — was also in the papers in 1933, from August to November. Why? Because she and her husband had murdered two of their three children. It’s unlikely that Americans were naming their babies with Fleming in mind, but the news stories about her would have increased readers’ exposure to the name Aleeta nonetheless.

Sources:

Image: Clipping from the Washington Times (23 May 1933)

[Latest update: Sept. 2025]

What gave the baby name Aletta a boost in 1935?

The novel "Aletta Laird" (1935) by Barbara Webb
“Aletta Laird” by Barbara Webb

The relatively rare name Aletta has been in the U.S. baby name data since the 1890s, but it saw a distinct spike in usage in 1935:

  • 1937: 13 baby girls named Aletta
  • 1936: 28 baby girls named Aletta
  • 1935: 37 baby girls named Aletta [peak usage]
  • 1934: 5 baby girls named Aletta
  • 1933: 10 baby girls named Aletta

In fact, Aletta’s sudden increase made it the second-highest relative rise of 1935, after Norita.

So what gave it a nudge?

The Barbara Webb story Aletta Laird, which was both serialized in the newspapers and released as a book in 1935.

I haven’t had a chance to read Aletta Laird — a “[r]omantic historical fiction” set in “old Bermuda, at the time of the American Revolution” — but here’s a description of how it begins:

Aletta Laird came to St. George’s in the Spring of 1775 to rejoin her father. Almost immediately after stepping ashore, she incurred the wrath of the tyrannical Governor, bought and Indian slave to save him from death by flogging, and learned that her father had died in prison as a traitor to his King. She also met the two men who were to lay siege to her heart, one the nephew of the Governor, the other a rebel American captain.

What are your thoughts on the baby name Aletta?

Sources:

Image: “Aletta Laird” in the Philadelphia Inquirer Public Ledger on June 2, 1935

P.S. Interestingly, the very similar name Aleeta saw peak usage just a couple of years earlier…