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Alta
Say it: AL-tuh
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
- 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
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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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