Name meaning & stats
Alma
Alma means “nourishing, kind” (Latin origin). 59,007 US babies since 1940, peak 1940.
What it means
“nourishing, kind”
LatinWell documented
In US birth records
Peak year: 1940
59,007 US babies were named Alma between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Alma (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
Alma is the main spelling
- Alma 98%
- Aloma 1%
- Alima 1%
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 1940)