girls:
31 births since 1911
#5685 (1st percentile)
boys:
561 births since 1881
#4025 (12th percentile)
overall:
592 births since 1881
#7147 (8th percentile)
The name Alto is the #7,147 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 592 recorded births since 1881. This represents the 7.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 7.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,025 (12.2% percentile) for all time with 561 births since 1881. For girls, it ranks #5,685 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 31 births since 1911.
Alto first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1881 (1881 for boys and 1911 for girls). Birth data for Alto is available in 63 out of the 111 years between 1881 and 1991 (63 years for boys and 5 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Alto has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 94.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Alto reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 2.8% percentile (ranked #520) with 20 births per million. The name was most common in 1897, with 66 births per million (ranked 1.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1991.
For girls, Alto reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #605) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1911, with 11 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1926.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Alto".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Alto. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 56.1% confident that Alto is pronounced as AL-toh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AHL-toh, at 34.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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