# Alta (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/alta/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Latin |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 29,048 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 117 / 28,931 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 21 | 6,157 |
| 2012 | 15 | 7,824 |
| 2013 | 30 | 4,652 |
| 2014 | 19 | 6,465 |
| 2015 | 24 | 5,472 |
| 2016 | 34 | 4,257 |
| 2017 | 24 | 5,356 |
| 2018 | 30 | 4,566 |
| 2019 | 30 | 4,551 |
| 2020 | 25 | 5,014 |
| 2021 | 35 | 4,100 |
| 2022 | 31 | 4,477 |
| 2023 | 30 | 4,573 |
| 2024 | 20 | 5,970 |
| 2025 | 33 | 4,267 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1913 | 5 | 2,830 |
| 1914 | 6 | 2,930 |
| 1916 | 5 | 3,911 |
| 1917 | 9 | 2,737 |
| 1921 | 7 | 3,535 |
| 1923 | 7 | 3,475 |
| 1926 | 5 | 4,220 |
| 1928 | 6 | 3,712 |
| 1929 | 5 | 3,972 |
| 1930 | 7 | 3,299 |
| 1931 | 5 | 3,778 |
| 1932 | 5 | 3,791 |
| 1933 | 6 | 3,281 |
| 1936 | 5 | 3,561 |
| 1937 | 5 | 3,535 |

## People named Alta

- Alta Allen, actress (1904–1998)
- Lady Bird Johnson, First Lady of the United States from 1963 to 1969
- Allee Willis, American songwriter, multi-media artist, collector, and art director (1947-2019)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.