Name: Alba
Gender: Unisex (Male and Female)
Usage: Alba, of scottish-gaelic origin, is a popular first name. It is more often used as a unisex (male and female) name.
People having the name Alba are in general originating from Albania, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, United States of America.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Alba is: Scotland.
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Numerology of the first name Alba: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 7. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: spiritual, intelligent, analytical, reserved, knowledgeable, mysterious, intuitive.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Philosophical, Spiritual
Ruling planet: Neptune
Colors: Green
Gemstones: Moonstone
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The name Alba is ranked on the 3,448th position of the most used names. It means that this name is commonly used.
We estimate that there are at least 99500 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.002% of the population. The name Alba has four characters. It means that it is relatively short-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Alba for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
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History and Origin
Alba is a female given name of Latin origin meaning "dawn". It can also be used as a Spanish surname, as in the actress Jessica Alba, or a title, as in the Spanish Dukedom of Alba. It may also be considered a feminine version of Albert or Albinus or of names beginning with the Germanic Alf.
Alba is also the Scottish Gaelic name for Scotland and the alba is a subgenre of Occitan lyric poetry.
- Alba Gaïa Bellugi (born 1995), a French actress
- Alba Milana (born 1959), an Italian long-distance runner
- Alba Silvius, an ancient Roman king of Alba Longa
Italian, occasionally used in the English-speaking world. It seems to represent the feminine form of the Latin adjective alba white, but may in fact be a derivative of Germanic alb elf, supernatural being.
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