Alba

Where Alba comes from

From Spanish Alba, ultimately from the same origin as Etymology 1 and 2.
— Wiktionary's entry for Alba
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #738 among girls with 6 babies — the first year on record, and still its best.
  2. 1882
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  3. 1893
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  4. 1979
    Alba Rohrwacher born
    Italian actress
  5. 1986
    Alba Flores born
    Spanish actress
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Spanish alba (“dawn”), of modern usage.
Namesakes
  • Alba Flores · Spanish actress, born 1986
  • Alba Rohrwacher · Italian actress, born 1979
  • Alba Baptista · Portuguese actress, born 1997
  • Alba de Céspedes · Cuban-Italian writer and poet, 1911–1997
  • Alba August · Swedish actress, born 1993, born 1993

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.