Alma

Where Alma comes from

Usually explained as Latin alma (“nourishing, kind”). It has also been used as a short form of Germanic compound names beginning with the element Amal-, as in Amelia.
— Wiktionary's entry for Alma
  • Latin
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1879
    Alma Mahler born
    Austrian composer, art collector, author, editor, and socialite
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #82 among girls — 277 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1896
    Peak, #51
    1,243 babies named Alma — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1964
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #388.
  5. 2005
    Alma Deutscher born
    British composer, pianist and violinist
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin, popular in the 19th century.
Namesakes
  • Alma Mahler · Austrian composer, art collector, author, editor, and socialite, 1879–1964
  • Alma Deutscher · British composer, pianist and violinist, born 2005
  • Alma Karlin · Slovenian academic and poet, 1889–1950
  • Alma Reville · English film editor and screenwriter, 1899–1982
  • Alma Zadić · Austrian lawyer and politician, born 1984

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.