Alta
Alta is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 20 births. Its best rank was 137th, in 1881.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 200.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1918820 births
- Best rank
- #137in 1881
- Since 1880
- 28,898people given the name
The story in the numbers
28,898 girls have been named Alta in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 820 births.
The name has all but left use: 20 births in 2024, against 820 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1921, and the 1920s alone account for 21%. It has spent 77 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Alta | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 1,523 | |
| 1890s | 2,796 | |
| 1900s | 3,091 | |
| 1910s | 6,028 | |
| 1920s | 6,198 | |
| 1930s | 3,670 | |
| 1940s | 2,255 | |
| 1950s | 1,280 | |
| 1960s | 589 | |
| 1970s | 420 | |
| 1980s | 289 | |
| 1990s | 188 | |
| 2000s | 186 | |
| 2010s | 244 | |
| 2020s | 141 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Alta was the 221st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1918 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Alta
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Onapeak 1916
- Hesterpeak 1918
- Maepeak 1918
- Alphapeak 1916
- Dessiepeak 1918
- Floypeak 1918
- Artiepeak 1916
- Alvinapeak 1917
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.