Alma


Gender:
Origin: Latin
273 famous people named Alma found on Wikipedia.
159347 female, 2184 male in US.
Most recent ranking: 645-th in year 2018
Best ranking: 51-th in year 1899
Used in: Dutch, English, Hebrew, Italian, Spanish

Meanings

A female given name: from a Latin word meaning “kind.”.

Alma (AHL-mə) is an English feminine given name, but has historically been used in the masculine form as well, sometimes in the form Almo. The origin of the name is debated, it was reserved as a title for classical goddesses as in the use "alma mater". It gained popularity after the Battle of Alma in the 19th century and appeared as a fashionable name for girls and a popular place name, but it has decreased in appearance in the 20th and 21st centuries. The name Alma also has several meanings in a variety of languages, and is generally translated to mean that the child "feeds one's soul" or "lifts the spirit".

Fem. proper name, from Latin Alma "nourishing," fem. of almus; from alere "to suckle, nourish," from PIE root *al- (2) "to grow, nourish."

Means: kind, loving, the soul in Latin.

Famous People: 273 found on Wikipedia.
Popularity Name Birth Year Description
1 Alma Reville 1899 British screenwriter, film editor, and wife of Alfred Hitchcock
2 Alma Deutscher 2005 British composer, pianist and violinist
3 Alma Cogan 1932 English singer of traditional pop music in the 1950s and early 1960s
4 Gil Alma 1979 French actor
5 Alma Mahler 1879 Viennese-born socialite well known in her youth for her beauty and vivacity.
6 Alma Moreno 1959 Filipino actor-politician
7 Alma Jodorowsky 1991 French actress and model
8 Alma Powell 1937 American audiologist
9 Alma S. Adams 1946 North Carolina politician
10 Alma Leiberg 1980 German actress
11 Alma Thomas 1891 American Expressionist painter and art educator
12 Alma Gluck 1884 American singer
13 Alma Halliwell
14 Alma Rubens 1897 Actress
15 Alma de Bretteville Spreckels 1881 American philanthropist
16 Alma Gutierrez Character from The Wire
17 Alma Har'el Film and Music video director
18 Alma Delfina 1960 Actress
19 Alma Rosé 1906 Austrian musician
20 Alma Kruger 1871 Film and stage actress
21 Alma Levant Hayden 1927
22 Alma Muriel 1951 Mexican actress
23 Alma von Goethe 1827
24 Alma, son of Alma
25 Alma Bridwell White 1862 Founder of the Pillar of Fire Church
26 Alma Delia Fuentes 1937 Mexican actress
27 Alma Guillermoprieto 1949 Mexican journalist
28 Alma Flor Ada 1938 Cuban-American author and poet
29 Alma Manuela Tirone 1952 Italian physician
30 Alma the Elder
31 Alma Rosa Aguirre 1929 Mexican actor and film actor
32 Alma Zack 1970 Israeli actress
33 Alma 1991 American singer
34 Alma Maritano 1937 Argentinian writer
35 Alma Richards 1890 American lawyer, teacher, athlete and soldier
36 Ibrahim Alma 1991 Footballer
37 Alma Moodie 1898 Australian musician
38 Alma María Vaesken 1936
39 Alma Cuervo 1951 American actress
40 Alma Mathijsen 1984 Dutch writer and journalist
41 Alma Beltran 1919 Veteran Mexican-American stage, film and TV actress
42 Alma Bennett 1904 American actress
43 Alma Adamkienė 1927 First Lady of Lithuania, wife of Valdas Adamkus
44 Alma Stockhausen 1927 German author
45 Alma Martinez 1953
46 Alma Taylor 1895 British actress
47 Alma Čardžić 1968 Bosnia and Herzegovina singer
48 Alma Hasun 1989 Austrian actor, stage actor and film actor
49 Alma Karlin 1889 Slovenian academic and poet
50 Alma Lopez Artist
51 Alma Würth 1913
52 Alma Tell 1898 American actress
53 Alma Preinkert 1895 American murder victim
54 Alma Alexander 1963 Writer
55 Alma Zohar 1977 Israeli musician
56 Alma Ziegler 1918 Female basbeball player
57 Alma Reed 1889 American journalist
58 Alma Luz Villanueva 1944 American writer
59 Alma Routsong 1924 American writer
60 Alma Siedhoff-Buscher 1899
61 Alma Prica 1962 Croatian actress
62 Alma Rogge 1894 Author from Germany
63 Alma Johansson 1880 Swedish missionary
64 Alma Lama
65 Alma Katsu 1959 An american author of the Taker Trilogy
66 Alma Sabatini 1922 Italian writer, linguist and activist
67 Alma Vélez 1927 Argentinian actor
68 Alma Garcia 1970 American writer
69 Alma Bella 1910 Filipino actress
70 Alma Lloyd 1914 American actress
71 Alma Bressan 1928 Argentinian writer
72 Alma Lavenson 1897 American photographer
73 Alma Hogan Snell 1923 American historian
74 Peter Alma 1886 Painter
75 Alma Redlinger 1924 Painter
76 Alma Wheeler Smith 1941 American politician
77 Alma Smith Jacobs 1916 American librarian
78 Alma McClelland 1921 American poker player
79 Alma Dolens 1869
80 Alma Johanna Koenig 1887 Austrian translator and writer
81 Alma Pihl 1888 Faberge workmaster
82 Alma Sonne 1884 American Mormon leader
83 Alma Denny 1906 American poet
84 Alma Koskela 1857 Fictional character
85 Alma Theon 1843 Clairvoyant
86 Henny Alma 1923 Dutch television actor and film actor
87 Alma Birk 1917 British politician
88 Alma Stanley 1854 British actress and vocalist
89 Alma Hanlon 1890 American actress
90 Alma L'Aigle 1889 German author and gardener
91 Alma Concepcion Filipino actress
92 Alma Karla Sandoval 1975 Mexican writer, poet and journalist
93 Alma Seidler 1899 Actress
94 Alma Evans-Freke 1931 First television presenter in New Zealand
95 Alma Allen Member of the Danish Resistance against the Nazis in World War II
96 Alma Kuc 1998
97 Alma Lepina 1974 Latvian figure skater
98 Alma Dayer LeBaron, Sr. 1886 American Mormon leader
99 Alma O. Taylor 1882 American Mormon missionary
100 Alma S. Woolley 1931 American nurse
101 Alma Kettig 1915 German politician
102 Alma Julia Hightower 1888 American musician
103 Alma Duncan 1917 Canadian painter, artist, filmmaker
104 Alma Jadallah American filmmaker
105 Alma Beatriz Rengifo 1955 Colombian lawyer and politician (1955-2015)
106 Alma Lee 1914 Lee, Alma, philatelist
107 Alma Lilia Luna Munguía 1976 Mexican politician
108 Alma De Groen 1941 Australian writer
109 Alma Eikerman 1908
110 Alma Qeramixhi 1963 Athletics competitor
111 Alma Joslyn Whiffen-Barksdale 1916 American mycologist
112 Alma Dawson American librarianship scholar
113 Hans Alma 1962 Dutch university professor
114 Alma Hasanic 1989 Norwegian handball player
115 Alma Bennett Morgan 1877 First Lady of West Virginia
116 Alma Wagen 1878 American mountain climber
117 Alma Wilson 1917 Oklahoma attorney, district judge
118 Alma G. Stallworth American politician
119 Alma Hunt 1909 American Baptist leader
120 Alma Macrorie 1904 American film editor and actor
121 Alma Hjelt 1853
122 Alma Carlisle 1927 American architect and historian
123 Alma Hämmerle 1924
124 Alma Murray 1854 British actress
125 Alma Arroyo Ruiz 1975 Mexican politician
126 Alma Fahlstrøm 1863 Norwegian actor and theatre manager
127 Alma Söderhjelm 1870 Finnish historian
128 Alma Vetsera Hayne 1890 Pretender to the Austrian throne
129 Alma Stone Williams 1921
130 Alma Cadzow British broadcaster
131 Alma Ricard 1906 Canadian businesswoman and philanthropist
132 Alma Galarza Puerto Rican singer
133 Alma M. Aldrich
134 Alma Brami 1984 French novellist
135 Alma del Banco 1862 German painter
136 Alma Hadzibeganovic 1972 Austrian author
137 Alma Eldredge 1841 American mayor
138 Alma W. Byrd 1924 US politician
139 Alma Merklin 1991
140 Pier Alma 1939 Dutch football player
141 Alma Kar 1908 Actress
142 Alma Gildenast 1990 German actor and stage actor
143 Alma Marina Vitela 1965 Mexican politician
144 Marian Alma 1860
145 Alma Ābele 1907
146 Alma Edwviges Alcaraz 1972 Mexican politician
147 Alma Jean Billingslea 1946 University prof and civil rights advocate
148 Alma Lesch 1917 American fiber artist known for fiber portraits
149 Alma Hilda Medina Macías 1976 Mexican politician
150 Alma Detthow 1855
151 Alma Vogt 1925
152 Alma Heikkilä Finnish painter
153 Alma Hinding 1892 Danish actress
154 Alma Jokinen 1882 Finnish politician
155 Alma Motzko 1887 Austrian historian and politician
156 Alma Hedin 1876 Swedish politician
157 Alma Bećirović
158 Alma Vaarman 1902
159 Alma Howard
160 Alma Hagenbucher 1922
161 Alma Haag 1882 Swedish photo journalist one of the first
162 Alma Holgersen 1896 Austrian writer
163 Alma Vītola 1992
164 Alma Larsen 1945 German writer
165 Alma Haas 1847 German pianist and musicologist
166 Alma Montenegro de Fletcher 1934 Panamanian lawyer
167 Alma Gould Dale 1854
168 Alma Flora 1911
169 Alma Öhrström 1897 Swedish painter
170 Alma Rock Phillips Australian actress
171 Alma Martinéz 1981 Association football player
172 Alma Braathen 1906
173 Alma Rosa Alva de la Selva Mexican researcher and writer.
174 Alma Åkermark 1853
175 Alma Brooks
176 Alma Bolón 1955
177 Alma Wartenberg 1871 German politician
178 Alma Soriano
179 Alma E. Foerster 1885
180 Fritz Herbert Alma 1902 Austrian paleontologist
181 Alma Asay
182 Alma Richter 1879
183 Alma Erdmann 1872 German painter and illustrator
184 Alma de Vries 1953 Dutch television presenter and television director
185 Alma Mavis Taraza
186 Alma Javtokienė 1953 Lithuanian basketball player
187 Alma Forstén 1858
188 Alma Xóchil Cardona 1966 Mexican politician
189 Alma Wittlin
190 Alma Sodnik 1896
191 Alma Soller McLay 1919
192 Alma Butia 1929 Slovene athletics competitor
193 Alma Skog
194 Alma Petri 1871
195 Alma Hütter-Krause 1844
196 Alma Kadastik 1925
197 Alma Teder 1908
198 Alma Monkauskaitė 1961
199 Alma Bodén 1859 Swedish actress
200 Alma Beslagić 1983 Bosnian volleyball player