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Alma
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About Alma
The name Alma is currently ranked #449 in U.S. births. and peaked for girls at #51 in 1897. The name is most popular in ALMA, ALMA, and ALMA. Alma is occasionally used for boys in 2025.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #677 | 420 | 235.1 |
| 2015 | #684 | 417 | 233.6 |
| 2016 | #724 | 392 | 221.2 |
| 2017 | #651 | 455 | 263.5 |
| 2018 | #648 | 458 | 269.2 |
| 2019 | #615 | 491 | 292.5 |
| 2020 | #564 | 521 | 322.3 |
| 2021 | #508 | 611 | 372.4 |
| 2022 | #483 | 657 | 400.6 |
| 2023 | #461 | 666 | 415.1 |
| 2024 | #472 | 653 | 403 |
| 2025 | #449 | 689 | 428.7 |
World rankings
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Famous Almas
- Alma Thomas
American painter
- Alma Leonore Beltran
Mexican actress
- Alma Angela Cogan
English pop singer
- Alma Guillermoprieto
Mexican journalist
- Alma Redlinger
Romanian painter & illustrator
- Alma Lucy Reville
Lady Hitchcock, English director and screenwriter; wife of director Alfred Hitchcock
- Alma Genevieve Rubens
American silent film actress
- Alma Maria Mahler
Austrian socialite; wife of composer Gustav Mahler, architect Walter Gropius, and novelist Franz Werfel
- Alma Rosé
Austrian violinist and conductor of the Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz
- Alma Socorro Martínez (Torres)
Mexican footballer
- Alma Templeton Moodie
Australian violinist
- (Alma) Andrea Meza
Miss World Mexico 2017
- Alma Jiménez Porter (b. 2011)
daughter of footballer Iker Jimenez
- Alma Sanz (b. 2014)
daughter of singer Alejandro Sanz
- Alma Versano (b. 2011)
daughter of actress Gal Gadot and Yaron Versano
- Alma Mascherano
daughter of Argentine footballer Javier Mascherano
- Alma Bay Dano (b. 2018)
daughter of actor/writers Zoe Kazan and Paul Dano
Alma in pop culture
- Alma Singer
character in The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
- Alma Winemiller
main character in Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke
- Alma Walker
character on FX's American Horror Story: Asylum
- Alma Coin
character in The Hunger Games trilogy
- Alma Dray
character in film Now You See Me
- Alma Garret
character on TV's Deadwood
- Alma LeFay Peregrine
character in the Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children series by Ransom Riggs
- Alma Wade
character in the F.E.A.R. video game series
- Alma Parker
character in 1966 film The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
- Alma Halliwell
character on British soap Coronation Street
- Alma Hodge
character on TV's Desperate Housewives
- Alma
a Greater Fiend from the video game Ninja Gaiden
- Alma Montemayor
main character in Mexican telenovela Porque el amor manda
- Alma Beoulve
character in video game Final Fantasy Tactics
- Alma Jinnai
character in anime Jewelpet Tinkle
- Alma Pudden
character in the St Clare book series by Enid Blyton
- Alma
character in animated series Doc McStuffins
- Book of Alma
section of the Book of Mormon
- Alma
a character in The Handmaid's Tale TV series
