Alabama

Place-name; Choctaw

"vegetation gatherers"

Alabama Origin and Meaning

The name Alabama is a girl's name of Choctaw origin meaning "vegetation gatherers".

Alabama is a hot southern place-name, picking up from Georgia and Savannah. This is not a geographical name come lately, though--there have been girls named Alabama dating back well over a century.

Hip couple Drea de Matteo and Shooter Jennings named their daughter Alabama Gypsy Rose, and rocker Travis Barker has an Alabama Louella.

Alabama Rank in US Top 1000

# 944 in the US

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Famous People Named Alabama

• Alabama Faulkner daughter of novelist William Faulkner
• Alabama Luella Barker (b. 2005) daughter of drummer Travis Barker and former Miss USA Shanna Moakler
• Alabama Gypsy Rose Jennings (b. 2007) daughter of actress Drea de Matteo and Shooter Jennings
• Alabama Zoe Gaskill (b. 2005) daughter of actor Brian Gaskill
• Alabama Rose Boatman daughter of actor Ross Boatman
• Roxy Alabama Weston daughter of TV/radio presenter Roz Weston

Alabama in Pop Culture

• Alabama Beggs main character of Zelda Fitzgerald's semi,autobiographical novel "Save Me the Waltz" (1932)
• Alabama Worley main character in movie "True Romance," played by Patricia Arquette
• Alabama Shakes Grammy,winning blues rock band
• Alabama state of the southern USA