Meaning not yet researched.
Alta: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 33 in 2025. Its best rank was #137 in 1881.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #137 in 1881; #4,267 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Alta in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,267 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1881, at #137.
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Alta: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 33 girls in 2025. Peak: #137 in 1881 · most girls in one year: 820 (1918).
In 2025, 33 US girls were named Alta, making it the 4,267th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,703 places from #5,970 in 2024. That is 13 more than the 20 girls named Alta in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #137, reached in 1881. The most girls given the name in a single year was 820, in 1918. For comparison, it was #5,472 in 2015 and #647 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Alta in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 91 babies with the name. In all, 29,048 US babies have been given the name, 99.5% of them girls and 0.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 6,228 babies named Alta.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 292 US girls were named Alta; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 35. In 2025 that was about 1 in 48,705 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Altha (3,386 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Arta, Altay and Altai are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Latvian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Arta (638), Altay (65), Altai (13).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Alta in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33 | #4,267 | — | — |
| 2024 | 20 | #5,970 | — | — |
| 2023 | 30 | #4,573 | — | — |
| 2022 | 31 | #4,477 | — | — |
| 2021 | 35 | #4,100 | — | — |
| 2020 | 25 | #5,014 | — | — |
| 2019 | 30 | #4,551 | — | — |
| 2018 | 30 | #4,566 | — | — |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,356 | — | — |
| 2016 | 34 | #4,257 | — | — |
| 2015 | 24 | #5,472 | — | — |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,465 | — | — |
| 2013 | 30 | #4,652 | — | — |
| 2012 | 15 | #7,824 | — | — |
| 2011 | 21 | #6,157 | — | — |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,235 | — | — |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,080 | — | — |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,435 | — | — |
| 2007 | 19 | #6,829 | — | — |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,267 | — | — |
| 2005 | 21 | #5,815 | — | — |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,414 | — | — |
| 2003 | 16 | #6,904 | — | — |
| 2002 | 22 | #5,263 | — | — |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,585 | — | — |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,799 | — | — |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,679 | — | — |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,564 | — | — |
| 1997 | 21 | #4,830 | — | — |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,077 | — | — |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,452 | — | — |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,021 | — | — |
| 1993 | 24 | #4,262 | — | — |
| 1992 | 24 | #4,243 | — | — |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,671 | — | — |
| 1990 | 22 | #4,385 | — | — |
| 1989 | 33 | #3,167 | — | — |
| 1988 | 20 | #4,314 | — | — |
| 1987 | 21 | #3,988 | — | — |
| 1986 | 20 | #4,034 | — | — |
| 1985 | 27 | #3,250 | — | — |
| 1984 | 34 | #2,678 | — | — |
| 1983 | 29 | #2,911 | — | — |
| 1982 | 42 | #2,327 | — | — |
| 1981 | 25 | #3,342 | — | — |
| 1980 | 38 | #2,487 | — | — |
| 1979 | 37 | #2,479 | — | — |
| 1978 | 43 | #2,159 | — | — |
| 1977 | 44 | #2,125 | — | — |
| 1976 | 36 | #2,293 | — | — |
| 1975 | 44 | #1,989 | — | — |
| 1974 | 37 | #2,172 | — | — |
| 1973 | 43 | #1,913 | — | — |
| 1972 | 40 | #1,989 | — | — |
| 1971 | 43 | #1,968 | — | — |
| 1970 | 53 | #1,720 | — | — |
| 1969 | 52 | #1,668 | — | — |
| 1968 | 52 | #1,594 | — | — |
| 1967 | 39 | #1,881 | — | — |
| 1966 | 52 | #1,549 | — | — |
| 1965 | 54 | #1,516 | — | — |
| 1964 | 65 | #1,393 | — | — |
| 1963 | 41 | #1,816 | — | — |
| 1962 | 70 | #1,324 | — | — |
| 1961 | 76 | #1,268 | — | — |
| 1960 | 88 | #1,163 | — | — |
| 1959 | 83 | #1,165 | — | — |
| 1958 | 101 | #1,041 | — | — |
| 1957 | 100 | #1,044 | — | — |
| 1956 | 116 | #935 | — | — |
| 1955 | 117 | #906 | — | — |
| 1954 | 114 | #897 | — | — |
| 1953 | 144 | #761 | — | — |
| 1952 | 166 | #691 | — | — |
| 1951 | 164 | #682 | — | — |
| 1950 | 175 | #647 | — | — |
| 1949 | 187 | #603 | — | — |
| 1948 | 181 | #615 | — | — |
| 1947 | 198 | #605 | — | — |
| 1946 | 202 | #558 | — | — |
| 1945 | 215 | #496 | — | — |
| 1944 | 224 | #476 | — | — |
| 1943 | 239 | #476 | — | — |
| 1942 | 271 | #445 | — | — |
| 1941 | 247 | #436 | — | — |
| 1940 | 291 | #398 | — | — |
| 1939 | 288 | #392 | — | — |
| 1938 | 301 | #384 | — | — |
| 1937 | 325 | #356 | 5 | #3,535 |
| 1936 | 329 | #345 | 5 | #3,561 |
| 1935 | 376 | #325 | — | — |
| 1934 | 355 | #335 | — | — |
| 1933 | 424 | #294 | 6 | #3,281 |
| 1932 | 416 | #312 | 5 | #3,791 |
| 1931 | 429 | #307 | 5 | #3,778 |
| 1930 | 427 | #318 | 7 | #3,299 |
| 1929 | 477 | #305 | 5 | #3,972 |
| 1928 | 515 | #290 | 6 | #3,712 |
| 1927 | 564 | #281 | — | — |
| 1926 | 605 | #273 | 5 | #4,220 |
| 1925 | 598 | #271 | — | — |
| 1924 | 663 | #255 | — | — |
| 1923 | 629 | #255 | 7 | #3,475 |
| 1922 | 691 | #247 | — | — |
| 1921 | 741 | #243 | 7 | #3,535 |
| 1920 | 715 | #244 | — | — |
| 1919 | 738 | #231 | — | — |
| 1918 | 820 | #221 | — | — |
| 1917 | 783 | #217 | 9 | #2,737 |
| 1916 | 765 | #220 | 5 | #3,911 |
| 1915 | 721 | #222 | — | — |
| 1914 | 552 | #227 | 6 | #2,930 |
| 1913 | 486 | #213 | 5 | #2,830 |
| 1912 | 459 | #207 | — | — |
| 1911 | 357 | #201 | — | — |
| 1910 | 347 | #191 | — | — |
| 1909 | 327 | #180 | — | — |
| 1908 | 313 | #182 | — | — |
| 1907 | 319 | #176 | — | — |
| 1906 | 316 | #171 | — | — |
| 1905 | 316 | #167 | — | — |
| 1904 | 327 | #164 | — | — |
| 1903 | 282 | #172 | — | — |
| 1902 | 279 | #170 | — | — |
| 1901 | 275 | #165 | 5 | #1,064 |
| 1900 | 337 | #164 | — | — |
| 1899 | 278 | #161 | — | — |
| 1898 | 317 | #161 | — | — |
| 1897 | 295 | #155 | — | — |
| 1896 | 302 | #155 | — | — |
| 1895 | 277 | #156 | 9 | #740 |
| 1894 | 298 | #144 | 5 | #1,083 |
| 1893 | 274 | #147 | — | — |
| 1892 | 282 | #145 | — | — |
| 1891 | 239 | #146 | 5 | #973 |
| 1890 | 234 | #151 | — | — |
| 1889 | 226 | #147 | 5 | #976 |
| 1888 | 218 | #147 | — | — |
| 1887 | 187 | #139 | — | — |
| 1886 | 159 | #151 | — | — |
| 1885 | 155 | #144 | — | — |
| 1884 | 140 | #151 | — | — |
| 1883 | 114 | #156 | — | — |
| 1882 | 119 | #148 | — | — |
| 1881 | 114 | #137 | — | — |
| 1880 | 91 | #151 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).