Alta

Alta: name meaning, origin & popularity

Meaning: “high, elevated”
Origin: Latin
Say it: AL-tuh · 2 syllables
Used for: Girls

From Latin alta, feminine of altus. It has also been used in English as a given name and place name.

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How popular is Alta?

20246.0 per million US babies

Drag the line or the slider to read any year. Values are per million US births recorded by Social Security. Records before about 1937 undercount births, so early peaks can look taller than they were.

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Babies named Alta in 202420

Peak year1894

Total US babies since 188029,015

Alta is rising: use over the last five years is 1.5× what it was a decade earlier.

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Alta questions

What does the name Alta mean?

Alta means "high, elevated". It comes from Latin. From Latin alta, feminine of altus. It has also been used in English as a given name and place name.

Is Alta a boy or girl name?

Alta is mainly a girl's name in US records (100% of uses since 1880).

How popular is Alta?

20 US babies were named Alta in 2024. Its peak year was 1894.

How do you pronounce Alta?

Alta is usually pronounced AL-tuh.

Birth counts: US Social Security Administration national data, 1880–2024 (names given to 5+ babies of a sex in a year). How we write meanings.