girls:
28.9k births since 1880
#839 (85th percentile)
boys:
117 births since 1889
#4469 (2nd percentile)
overall:
29k births since 1880
#1498 (81st percentile)
The name Alta is the #1,498 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 28,994 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 80.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 80.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #839 (85.3% percentile) for all time with 28,877 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,469 (2.5% percentile) for all time with 117 births since 1889.
Alta has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1889 for boys).
The name Alta has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Alta reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 63.9% percentile (ranked #209) with 697 births per million. The name was most common in 1894, with 1,263 births per million (ranked 57.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2010, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Alta ranks #922 for girls (2.6% percentile) with 17 births per million, which is 1.4% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Alta reached its peak popularity in 1895, achieving the 1.8% percentile (ranked #219) with 71 births per million. The name was most common in 1895, with 71 births per million (ranked 1.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1937.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Alta".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Alta. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 57.8% confident that Alta is pronounced as AHL-tuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AWL-tuh, at 24.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like AA1 L T AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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