Alma — #472 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Alma

The Social Security Administration has registered 163,016 babies named Alma between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Alma currently holds the #472 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1918, when 3,650 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Alma performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 30,434 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Alma shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 16,125 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and North Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Alma in 50 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Alma in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 163,016 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.