Alma Forename
921st
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 980,987 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
Mexico
Highest density in:
Mexico
Alma Forename Definition:
A female name. This name had a temporary vogue, following the battle of Alma 1854, The battle took its name from the river Alma in the Crimea. No doubt the name was sometimes associated, in the minds of those giving it, with the Latin adj meaning ‘loving’, ‘kind’, &c.
Read More About This ForenameAlma Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mexico | 100% | 437,022 | 1:284 | 47 |
| Philippines | 99% | 187,275 | 1:566 | 77 |
| United States | 100% | 151,958 | 1:2,386 | 439 |
| Guatemala | 99% | 24,519 | 1:657 | 142 |
| Honduras | 100% | 13,865 | 1:636 | 109 |
| Spain | 100% | 11,417 | 1:4,075 | 429 |
| Germany | 100% | 10,983 | 1:8,803 | 662 |
| England | 100% | 9,171 | 1:6,063 | 586 |
| El Salvador | - | 8,242 | 1:769 | 135 |
| India | 97% | 7,886 | 1:154,055 | 17,010 |
| Albania | 100% | 7,870 | 1:387 | 20 |
| Kazakhstan | 99% | 7,485 | 1:2,371 | 399 |
| Italy | 100% | 7,188 | 1:8,495 | 579 |
| Canada | 100% | 5,866 | 1:5,648 | 841 |
| Bangladesh | 100% | 5,499 | 1:28,998 | 2,963 |
| Lithuania | 100% | 5,322 | 1:555 | 151 |
| Colombia | 100% | 4,644 | 1:10,288 | 912 |
| Indonesia | 93% | 4,088 | 1:63,103 | 7,664 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 100% | 3,923 | 1:898 | 237 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 3,459 | 1:1,740 | 344 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 3,274 | 1:3,186 | 504 |
| South Africa | 100% | 3,176 | 1:17,170 | 2,518 |
| Sweden | 100% | 2,952 | 1:3,339 | 436 |
| Brazil | 100% | 2,706 | 1:79,171 | 4,795 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 2,523 | 1:6,699 | 945 |
| Namibia | - | 2,341 | 1:1,027 | 213 |
| Latvia | 100% | 2,332 | 1:864 | 193 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 1,904 | 1:1,865 | 238 |
| Jamaica | - | 1,509 | 1:1,911 | 429 |
| Egypt | 87% | 1,475 | 1:62,306 | 3,315 |
| Argentina | 100% | 1,447 | 1:29,560 | 1,118 |
| Panama | 100% | 1,434 | 1:2,724 | 536 |
| Greece | 100% | 1,422 | 1:7,690 | 511 |
| Paraguay | 99% | 1,398 | 1:5,177 | 729 |
| Croatia | 100% | 1,330 | 1:3,171 | 440 |
| Russia | 98% | 1,299 | 1:111,034 | 2,043 |
| Papua New Guinea | 96% | 1,232 | 1:6,617 | 695 |
| Chile | 100% | 1,166 | 1:15,101 | 946 |
| Slovenia | 100% | 1,162 | 1:2,116 | 379 |
| Uruguay | 100% | 1,112 | 1:3,082 | 372 |
| Norway | 100% | 994 | 1:5,163 | 618 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 986 | 1:30,631 | 2,184 |
| Pakistan | 96% | 957 | 1:203,091 | 6,769 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 903 | 1:9,096 | 961 |
| New Zealand | - | 811 | 1:5,593 | 751 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 799 | 1:29,749 | 5,090 |
| Austria | 100% | 797 | 1:10,683 | 652 |
| Peru | 100% | 768 | 1:41,395 | 2,321 |
| Finland | 100% | 735 | 1:7,460 | 708 |
| Denmark | - | 727 | 1:7,771 | 733 |
| Wales | 100% | 717 | 1:4,316 | 552 |
| Belgium | 100% | 712 | 1:16,138 | 1,384 |
| Poland | 98% | 707 | 1:53,787 | 1,425 |
| Kosovo | - | 651 | 1:2,859 | 608 |
| Ireland | 97% | 636 | 1:7,301 | 605 |
| Cameroon | 100% | 610 | 1:35,427 | 2,599 |
| Australia | - | 609 | 1:22,426 | 1,515 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 583 | 1:52,852 | 6,182 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 578 | 1:91,329 | 5,281 |
| Uganda | 100% | 569 | 1:71,981 | 3,732 |
| Ecuador | - | 566 | 1:31,320 | 1,439 |
| Serbia | 100% | 528 | 1:13,534 | 1,035 |
| Belize | 100% | 464 | 1:764 | 121 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 98% | 423 | 1:14,121 | 1,920 |
| Bahamas | - | 384 | 1:1,040 | 260 |
| Scotland | 100% | 381 | 1:14,043 | 819 |
| Malaysia | 89% | 372 | 1:81,855 | 6,085 |
| Romania | 100% | 342 | 1:58,632 | 3,110 |
| Ghana | - | 337 | 1:80,078 | 3,677 |
| Thailand | 100% | 331 | 1:211,679 | 13,650 |
| Afghanistan | 94% | 328 | 1:99,462 | 3,493 |
| Morocco | - | 328 | 1:104,721 | 3,418 |
| Haiti | 100% | 304 | 1:35,286 | 2,561 |
| Israel | 94% | 286 | 1:29,381 | 2,334 |
| Iceland | 98% | 267 | 1:1,371 | 267 |
| Azerbaijan | 100% | 265 | 1:36,388 | 2,592 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 265 | 1:17,992 | 1,312 |
| France | 100% | 264 | 1:251,782 | 3,699 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 240 | 1:5,673 | 965 |
| Montenegro | 100% | 213 | 1:2,979 | 513 |
| Kenya | - | 185 | 1:250,309 | 9,382 |
| Portugal | - | 184 | 1:56,581 | 1,876 |
| Suriname | 100% | 181 | 1:3,054 | 705 |
| Barbados | - | 163 | 1:1,778 | 401 |
| Estonia | 100% | 160 | 1:8,221 | 1,016 |
| Guyana | 100% | 154 | 1:4,956 | 907 |
| DR Congo | 95% | 151 | 1:488,925 | 17,342 |
| Nigeria | 82% | 150 | 1:1,183,762 | 28,365 |
| Zimbabwe | 100% | 144 | 1:107,110 | 7,647 |
| Czechia | 93% | 143 | 1:74,519 | 1,010 |
| Uzbekistan | 100% | 136 | 1:226,371 | 5,030 |
| Qatar | 100% | 135 | 1:17,553 | 2,624 |
| Bahrain | - | 133 | 1:10,140 | 1,551 |
| Hungary | 100% | 131 | 1:74,746 | 641 |
| Northern Ireland | 100% | 123 | 1:14,985 | 893 |
| Congo | 65% | 119 | 1:42,094 | 3,376 |
| China | - | 103 | 1:13,262,677 | 59,895 |
| Ukraine | 100% | 96 | 1:473,957 | 2,119 |
| Guam | - | 91 | 1:1,765 | 388 |
| Niger | 73% | 78 | 1:245,949 | 6,446 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 73 | 1:97,973 | 7,849 |
| Cuba | - | 72 | 1:159,813 | 2,551 |
| Saint Lucia | 100% | 68 | 1:2,615 | 492 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 68 | 1:1,614 | 323 |
| Grenada | 94% | 66 | 1:1,638 | 351 |
| Kuwait | - | 66 | 1:57,352 | 4,703 |
| Turkey | 100% | 66 | 1:1,178,814 | 10,840 |
| Turkmenistan | 100% | 60 | 1:91,214 | 1,049 |
| Georgia | 93% | 59 | 1:63,364 | 2,811 |
| Singapore | 100% | 59 | 1:106,560 | 7,501 |
| Japan | - | 53 | 1:2,414,831 | 21,138 |
| Liberia | 84% | 50 | 1:88,241 | 3,952 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 46 | 1:12,262 | 931 |
| British Virgin Islands | 100% | 43 | 1:727 | 130 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 43 | 1:2,595 | 502 |
| Marshall Islands | 100% | 42 | 1:1,220 | 160 |
| Sudan | - | 36 | 1:1,050,194 | 2,907 |
| Faroe Islands | 100% | 34 | 1:1,445 | 309 |
| Greenland | - | 31 | 1:1,818 | 338 |
| Bulgaria | 96% | 29 | 1:241,048 | 5,534 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | - | 29 | 1:1,885 | 394 |
| French Polynesia | - | 27 | 1:10,293 | 1,329 |
| Aruba | - | 25 | 1:4,151 | 831 |
| Iran | - | 25 | 1:3,139,875 | 15,440 |
| Solomon Islands | 100% | 25 | 1:23,238 | 1,800 |
| Hong Kong | - | 24 | 1:323,030 | 3,752 |
| Cayman Islands | 100% | 22 | 1:2,786 | 595 |
| Jersey | - | 20 | 1:4,999 | 624 |
| Anguilla | 100% | 18 | 1:736 | 98 |
| Armenia | 100% | 18 | 1:162,153 | 3,260 |
| Oman | - | 17 | 1:241,686 | 3,539 |
| Syria | - | 17 | 1:1,135,651 | 3,292 |
| Abkhazia | 93% | 15 | 1:16,228 | 1,011 |
| Burkina Faso | 100% | 14 | 1:1,312,819 | 33,687 |
| Lebanon | - | 13 | 1:432,890 | 5,953 |
| Tunisia | - | 13 | 1:52,069 | 2,652 |
| Nepal | 73% | 12 | 1:2,373,946 | 34,978 |
| South Korea | - | 12 | 1:462,035 | 12,149 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 9 | 1:11,044 | 1,733 |
| Bolivia | - | 9 | 1:1,177,934 | 3,617 |
| Fiji | - | 9 | 1:99,153 | 1,900 |
| Gabon | 100% | 9 | 1:209,260 | 2,118 |
| Rwanda | - | 9 | 1:1,263,493 | 1,939 |
| Saint Martin | - | 9 | 1:3,972 | 74 |
| Northern Cyprus | - | 8 | 1:39,767 | 1,981 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | - | 8 | 1:6,858 | 1,062 |
| Belarus | 100% | 7 | 1:1,354,626 | 6,726 |
| Cyprus | - | 7 | 1:124,439 | 3,136 |
| Senegal | 75% | 7 | 1:2,083,051 | 13,702 |
| Slovakia | 100% | 7 | 1:758,580 | 3,008 |
| Dominica | - | 6 | 1:12,578 | 436 |
| Liechtenstein | - | 6 | 1:6,309 | 521 |
| Ivory Coast | 75% | 5 | 1:4,615,187 | 69,481 |
| Algeria | - | 4 | 1:9,544,180 | 14,095 |
| Andorra | - | 4 | 1:20,722 | 745 |
| Benin | 100% | 4 | 1:2,643,961 | 45,199 |
| Botswana | - | 4 | 1:546,112 | 13,807 |
| East Timor | - | 4 | 1:304,594 | 432 |
| Iraq | - | 4 | 1:8,754,465 | 16,071 |
| Macau | - | 4 | 1:152,052 | 991 |
| Monaco | - | 4 | 1:9,616 | 1,312 |
| Mongolia | 100% | 4 | 1:733,704 | 10,632 |
| Mozambique | - | 4 | 1:6,810,839 | 3,114 |
| Norfolk Island | - | 4 | 1:581 | 152 |
| Sierra Leone | - | 4 | 1:1,772,166 | 913 |
| North Macedonia | 100% | 3 | 1:696,919 | 10,674 |
| Vietnam | - | 3 | 1:30,874,371 | 5,995 |
| Cambodia | - | 2 | 1:8,136,665 | 51,498 |
| Maldives | 100% | 2 | 1:216,952 | 3,781 |
| Micronesia | - | 2 | 1:53,250 | 1,276 |
| Yemen | - | 2 | 1:13,148,376 | 10,677 |
| Zambia | - | 2 | 1:7,927,397 | 45,785 |
| Angola | - | 1 | 1:26,966,606 | 7,835 |
| Brunei | - | 1 | 1:419,570 | 3,266 |
| Cook Islands | - | 1 | 1:18,153 | 1,349 |
| Equatorial Guinea | - | 1 | 1:1,137,689 | 1,044 |
| Ethiopia | - | 1 | 1:97,560,133 | 29,608 |
| Gibraltar | - | 1 | 1:34,138 | 985 |
| Guernsey | - | 1 | 1:63,331 | 901 |
| Jordan | - | 1 | 1:8,826,774 | 11,126 |
| Lesotho | - | 1 | 1:2,039,997 | 47,971 |
| Madagascar | - | 1 | 1:23,629,408 | 6,628 |
| Malawi | 100% | 1 | 1:17,112,310 | 24,110 |
| Malta | - | 1 | 1:429,360 | 3,141 |
| Mauritania | 100% | 1 | 1:4,095,239 | 27,701 |
| Moldova | - | 1 | 1:3,561,139 | 8,690 |
| Myanmar | - | 1 | 1:51,948,273 | 3,226 |
| Palau | - | 1 | 1:21,711 | 239 |
| Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha | - | 1 | 1:5,829 | 386 |
| San Marino | 100% | 1 | 1:32,920 | 787 |
| Seychelles | - | 1 | 1:92,670 | 1,891 |
| Somalia | - | 1 | 1:13,525,867 | 7,760 |
| South Ossetia | 100% | 1 | 1:53,551 | 905 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 1 | 1:20,799,087 | 16,824 |
| Swaziland | - | 1 | 1:1,300,177 | 3,374 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | - | 1 | 1:34,707 | 1,398 |
| Tuvalu | - | 1 | 1:11,131 | 89 |
The alternate forms: Àlma (4), Almà (1) & Álma (1) are calculated separately.
Alma (14,238) may also be a surname.
Alma Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A female name. This name had a temporary vogue, following the battle of Alma 1854, The battle took its name from the river Alma in the Crimea. No doubt the name was sometimes associated, in the minds of those giving it, with the Latin adj meaning ‘loving’, ‘kind’, &c.
— The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Names (1947) by E. G. Withycombe
F. This now slightly unfashionable name is really four names, according to its various origins: of which the latest is the Russian place-name, popularised by the Battle of Alma (September 20, 1854); Latin alma (fair or kindly girl: cf. one’s alma mater); a Celtic term for ‘all good’; and a Hebrew term for ‘maiden’.
— Name This Child (1959) by Eric Partridge
At the time of the war with Russia several females in the west of England were so christened after the Battle of the Alma. Conf. N. Q. 4th S. ii. 293.
— Prænomina (1882) by Richard Stephen Charnock
A Latin name, meaning: Benign: the soul: fostering: nourishing. (Sanskrit) Spirit: mind. (Arabic) Being learned: armor.
— Dictionary of Given Names with Origins and Meanings (1934) by Flora Haines Loughead
Alma Forename Popularity
Alma Demographics
Average Alma Salary in
United States
$34,768 USD
Per year
Rank:
327,221 of 531,972
Percentage of all salaries earned by bearers:
0.040061
Rank: 444 of 532,209
Percentage of national average salary:
79.87%
Sample size: 94,986 (2014)
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
Per month:
$3,596 USD
Per week:
$799 USD
Per day:
$118 USD
Phonetically Similar Names
Alma Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Alma in the Russian language | ||
| Алма | alma | - |
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