Comments for the name Althea

In the T.V. show "In the Heat of the Night," Anne-Marie Johnson played Althea Tibbs, the wife of the Chief of Detectives, Virgil Tibbs.

Althea Gibson was a famous tennis player.

Althea, from Greek Ἀλθεία, was Meleager's mother's name and is also the Latin scientific name of the marshmallow plant, Althaea officinalis. In ancient Greek, ἀλθεία could also designate the mallow (Malva).

The name comes from the root ἀλθαι-, "heal", which gave the verb ἀλθαίνω. Ἀλθαία merely means "healing substance", which refers to the way this medical plant was used during Antiquity.

Source: Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque by Pierre Chantraine.

Althea was the name of Larry Flynt's deceased wife.

It has a pretty sound. Ali could be a possible nickname.

It is interesting how Althea has a "healing" meaning and it has all the same letters as health. I wonder if health stems from althea in any way.

This name comes from the Greek for truth.

I believe you're confusing this name with Alethea. Althea does not come actually from the Greek word for truth, but Alethea does.

I've heard people with this name just called Thea for short.

It's pronounced Al-thee-a or Ol-thee-a.

A very pretty name, in my opinion. Old-fashioned and elegant, too. The nickname 'Thea' is nice as well.

Pronounced "Ahl-te-ah".

Ross and Monica's nana was named Althea in FRIENDS.

I have a friend named Althea, except she pronounces it like Aaliyah. It's weird, but I think it's pretty.

Althea Crome is the woman who created some of the clothes for the movie Coraline. She hand knits clothes on a very, VERY small scale.

The Grateful Dead have a well-known song called Althea. Many Dead fans believe the song makes reference to both the mother of Meleager and Leda (Helen of Troy's mother) in Greek Mythology and a poem by Richard Lovelace, "To Althea, From Prison" in the 1600s.