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Alta

Girl · Latin

Alta

Say it: AL-tuh

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Meaning

From Latin or Spanish alta 'high'; its use as an American given name in the 1800s has no clear source.

Likelythe main view, with some doubt.

Used in the US mainly around 1880 to 1920.

Its wave through time

Fading since the 1890s

In the United States

00.511.518801900192019401960198020002020Peak 1894per 1,000 babies of that sex
  • 28,894 babies given this name since 1880
  • At its height in 1894, about 1 in 748 girls
  • 25 babies in 2020

Through the ages

  1. Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
  2. The Modern Age1880 to today

Used by

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Where this comes from

  • United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
  • National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
  • United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source

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