Alma

given name · Spanish · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Alma is a given name, most frequently recorded in Mexico, where it is the 75th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: ‘all good’; early Irish name, also linked with the Blessed Virgin and St Alma, mother of St Tudwal.

rarermore common
  • MXMexico1 in 423◐
  • PHPhilippines1 in 1.3K
  • SVEl Salvador1 in 1.6K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈184K ●

across 13 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
384 ●

1.1M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 486 ◐

Sweden

Spellings & scripts●

AlmaLatin · Spanish●1.6M records
ᲐლმაGeorgian · Georgian●161 records

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

‘all good’; early Irish name, also linked with the Blessed Virgin and St Alma, mother of St Tudwal.

Sources 1

  • Irish first names

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Alma is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MX Mexico#75750,644566K rec.——Alma211
AR Argentina#310374,492144K rec.—3.5KAlma74
PH Philippines#151124,014111K rec.——Alma109
US United States—101,619191K rec.1 in 3.3K102KAlma384
ES Spain#49921,802△6.1K rec.1 in 2.3K22KAlma129
SE Sweden—20,997△556 rec.1 in 48621KAlma43
SV El Salvador#18517,29915K rec.——Alma36
FR France—11,98010K rec.1 in 5.7K12KAlma207
HN Honduras#9710,49410K rec.——Alma35
DK Denmark—8,665—1 in 6778.7K——
CA Canada#9218,0028.1K rec.—6Alma82
PY Paraguay#2567,5974.4K rec.——Alma26

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Spanish1.6M53%
  • English831K28%
  • Finnish59K2%
  • 54K2%
  • French47K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish1,563,40053%
English831,27228%
Finnish58,8832%
54,4962%
French46,5392%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Alma is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name1.0M records spelled Alma27 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Denmark, Philippines

    Languages: English, German, Danish

    Also written Al-Ma, Älmä, Almâ, Âlmâ, Ålmå

  • Finnish given name60K records spelled Alma7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, Philippines, India

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Älmä, Almã, Ålma, Almà, Ălmå

  • a separate given name58K records spelled Alma2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, Canada

    Also written Ālmā

  • Russian given name34K records spelled Alma43 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kazakhstan, Croatia, Russia, United States

    Languages: Russian, Croatian, Uzbek

    Also written Алма, Альма, Элма, Al'Ma, Aljma

  • Indonesian given name20K records spelled Alma6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Indonesia, United States, Malaysia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Alma, Alma', Àlmå

69 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Alma is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, Latin alma 'nourishing, kind'; also used in several languages as a given name.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In Spanish, soul

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, An Egyptian female singer or dancing-girl employed for entertainment or as a professional mourner.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latin, latín alma ‘que da vida, benéfica’; también del río Alma de Crimea y la batalla de Alma (1854).

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

  • In English, Crimean river; US pi name; pers.

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

01K2K3K4K1900195020003.6K · 1918

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Alma in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
1880277
1881293
1882368
1883359
1884480
1885515
1886603
1887623
1888853
1889819
1890922
1891929
18921,056
18931,055
18941,177
18951,144
18961,243
18971,213
18981,299
18991,146
19001,372
19011,195
19021,229
19031,244
19041,257
19051,333
19061,266
19071,347
19081,474
19091,375
19101,630
19111,611
19122,183
19132,297
19142,648
19153,248
19163,403
19173,407
19183,650
19193,438
19203,584
19213,589
19223,233
19233,070
19243,240
19252,996
19262,990
19272,847
19282,496
19292,389
19302,380
19312,115
19322,045
19331,839
19341,903
19351,679
19361,610
19371,626
19381,558
19391,496
19401,428
19411,364
19421,407
19431,336
19441,217
19451,081
19461,170
19471,184
19481,160
19491,054
19501,052
1951981
19521,029
19531,088
19541,013
1955963
1956948
1957983
1958766
1959814
1960788
1961788
1962713
1963670
1964616
1965551
1966599
1967604
1968543
1969510
1970534
1971584
1972568
1973555
1974595
1975520
1976580
1977564
1978513
1979579
1980658
1981687
1982603
1983522
1984530
1985549
1986521
1987492
1988511
1989615
1990685
1991668
1992702
1993645
1994586
1995583
1996566
1997536
1998527
1999532
2000548
2001527
2002515
2003421
2004453
2005481
2006475
2007415
2008369
2009349
2010318
2011298
2012313
2013402
2014421
2015417
2016392
2017455
2018458
2019491
2020524
2021613
2022658
2023666
2024659
2025689

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

18501900195020002050Alma Kruger, b. 1871Alma Mahler-Werfel, b. 1879Alma Reville, b. 1899Alma Macrorie, b. 1904Pat Hitchcock, b. 1928Alma Zack, b. 1970Annalena Baerbock, b. 1980Alma Zadić, b. 1984Alma, b. 1996Alma Deutscher, b. 2005
  • Alma Krugerb. 1871USFilm and stage actress (1871-1960)
  • Alma Mahler-Werfelb. 1879ATAustrian composer, art collector, author, editor, and socialite (1879-1964)
  • Alma Revilleb. 1899GBEnglish film editor and screenwriter (1899–1982)
  • Alma Macrorieb. 1904USAmerican film editor and actor (1904-1970)
  • Pat Hitchcockb. 1928USnot in their usual nameBritish actress (1928–2021)
  • Alma Zackb. 1970ILIsraeli actress and comedian
  • Annalena Baerbockb. 1980DEnot in their usual nameGerman politician (born 1980)
  • Alma Zadićb. 1984ATAustrian lawyer and politician
  • Almab. 1996FIFinnish singer-songwriter
  • Alma Deutscherb. 2005GBBritish composer, pianist and violinist

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 129 sources across 64 countries.

Official registers attesting Alma
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020102K#546
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—22K#328
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—21K#205
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—18K#273
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—17K#212
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—15K#301
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)202412K#6
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202012K—
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—8.7K#82
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—5.1K—
AL AlbaniaINSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts)—4.5K#33
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20254.5K—

Reference works 5

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,626 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Alma?
We estimate roughly 184 thousand people bear Alma (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
In which country does Alma have the most bearers?
Alma is most frequently recorded in Mexico, where it is most often spelled alma.
How common is Alma compared with other names?
In Mexico, Alma is the 75th most common given name of 191,605 given names recorded there.
Is Alma a male or female name?
Alma is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Alma mean?
Recorded meaning: ‘all good’; early Irish name, also linked with the Blessed Virgin and St Alma, mother of St Tudwal.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Alma” — the 75th most common given name in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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