How rare is the name Alta?

6,240 people in the United States have the first name Alta, about 1 in 48,402. It ranks #3,386 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

ALTA

#3,386

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
6,240
About
1 in 48,402
This common or more
82.3%
Who bears it

Of the 6,240 people named Alta, 82.4% reported their origin as White, 6.9% as Black and 4.1% as Hispanic or Latino. 99.1% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Alta peaked in 1918, when 820 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1918
Births that year
820
In 2025*
33 ▼96%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 29,048 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Alta by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1890s, when it ranked #220. The largest share of babies named Alta, 48.3%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.

1880s#2401,528
1890s#2202,815
1900s#2493,096
1910s#3816,053
1920s#4796,228
1930s#6133,703
1940s#9192,255
1950s#1,4791,280
1960s#2,372589
1970s#3,306420
1980s#4,963289
1990s#8,430188
2000s#10,642186
2010s#9,224244
2020s#8,104174
Before 190116.1%
Greatest Generation 1901–2748.3%
Silent Generation 1928–4521.3%
Baby boom 1946–648.2%
Generation X 1965–802.4%
Millennials 1981–961.3%
Generation Z 1997–121%
2013 and later1.3%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Alta is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Alta has been most common in Oklahoma (5.4×), Arkansas (4.7×), and Idaho (4.5×), and least common in Massachusetts (0.08×).

17,562 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Alta

#3,384 Candi · 6,244#3,385 Leena · 6,243#3,387 Ivanna · 6,239#3,388 Wen · 6,234

Spelled almost the same

5 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Alta, most common first.

#4,107 Aleta · 4,691#6,317 Alda · 2,554#8,139 Alita · 1,797#16,325 Altha · 693#34,047 Alto · 241

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