The first name Alta
A girl’s name from Latin.
2 syllables Female
Meaning and origin
Latin origin
A female given name from Latin possibly from Latin alta (“high”), fairly common in the United States in the nineteenth century.
From Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Popularity in the United States
Babies named Alta at birth, 1880–2025
In 2025, 33 girls born in the United States were named Alta, the 4,267th most popular girls’ name that year. It was used most in 1918, when 820 were.
29,048
babies named Alta since 1880
#4,267
rank in 2025
1918
peak year
US Social Security Administration, from applications for a Social Security card. A name is only published for a year when at least five babies were given it, so quieter years show as zero.
Famous people named Alta
3 on Wikidata, most written-about first
- Alta AllenActress (1904–1998)
- Lady Bird JohnsonFirst Lady of the United States from 1963 to 1969
- Allee WillisAmerican songwriter, multi-media artist, collector, and art director (1947-2019)
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Questions
- What is the origin of the name Alta?
- Alta comes from Latin.
- Is Alta a boy's or a girl's name?
- Mostly a girl's name: 100% of the 29,048 US babies named Alta since 1880 were girls.
- When was Alta most popular?
- 1918 in the United States, when 820 babies were named Alta, its highest rank at 221st.