Alma
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: soul
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Alma is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. In Mexico it is the 69th most common given name.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 743(inferred from the name graph)
- HNHonduras≈1 in 822
- ARArgentina≈1 in 1.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 424 (measured from records)
- 1 in 486 (inferred from the name graph)
≈150,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘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 17 languages in the etymology graph.
How Alma is read(measured from records)
Alma is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish52%
soul
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English37%
An Egyptian female singer or dancing-girl employed for entertainment or as a professional mourner.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Crimean river; US pi name; pers.
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Alma counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #217 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 743 | — | Alma | 114 |
| US United States | — | 102,369 | 1 in 3.2K | 102K | Alma | 424 |
| AR Argentina | #378 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 3.5K | Alma | 78 |
| ES Spain | #810 | 21,802 | 1 in 2.3K | 22K | Alma | 139 |
| SE Sweden | — | 20,997 | 1 in 486 | 21K | Alma | 40 |
| HN Honduras | #103 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 822 | — | Alma | 35 |
| DK Denmark | — | 8,665 | 1 in 677 | 8.7K | — | — |
| AL Albania | — | 4,543 | 1 in 677 | 4.5K | — | — |
| MX Mexico | #69 | — | — | — | Alma | 223 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Alma is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Irish, ‘all good’; early Irish name, also linked with the Blessed Virgin and St Alma, mother of St Tudwal.
as a nameIrish first names
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 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
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- 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(measured from records)
Attested in 134 sources across 64 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 102K | #546 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 22K | #328 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 21K | #205 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 17K | #212 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 12K | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 8.7K | #82 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 4.5K | #33 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 3.5K | #30 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 1.2K | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 1.2K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 750 | #546 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 689 | — |
Reference works 7
- 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)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Alma come from?
- ‘all good’; early Irish name, also linked with the Blessed Virgin and St Alma, mother of St Tudwal. Recorded by Irish first names.
- In which country does Alma have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 147 thousand people named Alma in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alma.
- Where is Alma most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Alma is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 486 people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- What does the name Alma mean?
- In Spanish, soul
- 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.
- How common is the name Alma?
- In the United States, the national register counted 102,369 people named Alma in 2020, about 1 in 3.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Alma compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Alma is the 217th most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
- What are other forms of the name Alma?
- In the etymology graph, Amelie is a form of the same name in other languages.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/almaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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 217th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.