Entry № 858 · Greek origin

Aretha Aretha — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-REE-thah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Virtue (Aretha Franklin, Queen of Soul)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "virtue (aretha franklin, queen of soul)".

Aretha is from the Greek aretē (virtue, excellence).

Virtue (Aretha Franklin, Queen of Soul) — a Greek name.

The name in its native script.

Ἀρετή
Transliteration
Aretḗ
Pronunciation
/ əˈriː.θə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Aretha stands.

Aretha does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Arethas before her.

Real people
Aretha Franklin
American Queen of Soul.
1942 – 2018
In fiction
Aretha
Respect.
2021 film

Names connected to Aretha.

The number behind Aretha.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Aretha reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.