Girl
Alta
Alta means "Latin/Spanish" and comes from Latin, giving it real etymological depth as a girl's name. It had its heyday in the 1920s and has mostly fallen out of use since. Today, it is on the rarer side without being unusual in the registry. Since 1900, roughly 24,461 babies in the U.S. have been given this name.
LatinLatin/Spanish
EtymologyMeaning "high, tall"
Births by decade
1900s
3,096
1910s
6,053
1920s
6,228
1930s
3,702
1940s
2,255
1950s
1,280
1960s
589
1970s
420
1980s
289
1990s
186
2000s
183
2010s
180
Peaked in the 1920s · 24,461 total U.S. births since 1900