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Also Danish: https://www.nordicnames.de/wiki/Alba
Also French: https://meilleursprenoms.com/popularite-prenom/Alba
It was the eighth most popular name for girls in France in 2021, going up 370 spots in five years.
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Also French: https://meilleursprenoms.com/popularite-prenom/Alba
It was the eighth most popular name for girls in France in 2021, going up 370 spots in five years.
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Also used in Albanian: https://instatemra.shinyapps.io/emra/
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From "Jane the Virgin", Alba Villanueva.
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I love Alba. It means "Dawn" in Latin so in derived languages, like Spanish or Italian too.
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Danish - Swedish actress Alba August: the daughter of director Bille August. She portrays Astrid Lindgren in Becoming Astrid.
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Also Niçard: http://www.sourgentin.org/cours-de-nissart/les-prenoms/
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This name is so fresh and adorable!
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Lovely.
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❤️❤️❤️!
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I used to think this name was so boring and dull. But now, I like it! It’s simple, cute, unique and really pretty. I might use it as a middle name one day.
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Alba Calderón de Gil (1908–1992) was an Ecuadorian social realist painter, leftist activist, and feminist. She founded the movement for the recognition of women's rights in Ecuador. Alba Calderón was born in Esmeraldas and died in Guayaquil.
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Alba Caterina Rohrwacher (born 27 February 1979) is an Italian actress. Alba Rohrwacher was born in Florence, the daughter of a German father and an Italian mother. From the age of 17 to 21 she studied medicine, intending to be a doctor. At the age of 21 she moved to Rome to study acting at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia.Her younger sister is director Alice Rohrwacher.
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Alba de Céspedes y Bertini (11 March 1911 – 14 November 1997) was a Cuban-Italian writer. De Céspedes was the daughter of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y Quesada (a Cuban ambassador to Italy) and his Italian wife, Laura Bertini y Alessandri. Her grandfather was Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, who is the father of the nation of Cuba, and a distant cousin was Perucho Figueredo. She was married to Francesco Bounous of the Italian foreign service.
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Alba Arnova (15 March 1930 – 11 March 2018) was an Italian-Argentine ballerina and film actress. Born in Buenos Aires as Alba Fossati, daughter of two Italian emigrants, Arnova studied piano at the Conservatory and enrolled in the university at the medical faculty. She became the principal classical dancer of the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires and changed her surname first to Ars Nova and then to Arnova.
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Ugh. Never liked this name, never will.
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All I can personally think of is Jessica Alba.
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I'm torn between seeing this as an old-fashioned, terribly dated name vs. fresh and modern. I really like the sound of it but a part of me thinks of an old lady wearing a wrinkled dress and flesh-toned knee highs. Even so, it's gorgeous and I would still use it.
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The Latin version of my name would be something like Sarra Alba, so ever since I started studying Latin I've loved this name. Then I recently read Harry Potter (as a sheltered homeschool Student [TM], I'm kind of late to the pop culture game), and now I'm not sure I would use this name, because people might think I was naming my hypothetical baby daughter after a male, fictional, elderly wizard.
Nothing wrong about Albus Dumbledore (except perhaps being manipulative of Harry and Snape BUT NEVER MIND, let's not get into a fandom debate), it'd just be a mistaken impression.
But since no one else on this comments page has mentioned him, maybe my worry is unfounded. I guess I'll have to worry more about Jessica Alba. Whoever she is.
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Nothing wrong about Albus Dumbledore (except perhaps being manipulative of Harry and Snape BUT NEVER MIND, let's not get into a fandom debate), it'd just be a mistaken impression.
But since no one else on this comments page has mentioned him, maybe my worry is unfounded. I guess I'll have to worry more about Jessica Alba. Whoever she is.
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Thought it would be interesting to know that "Alba" is written and pronounced "Alba" in Romanian as well, meaning "white". There is also a very old town called "Alba" in Romania - Transylvania.
And out of the line, the only nations playing bagpipes for as long back as we can remember are Scotland and Romania. Love it...
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And out of the line, the only nations playing bagpipes for as long back as we can remember are Scotland and Romania. Love it...
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The name Alba was given to 132 baby girls born in the US in 2012.
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This name is used in Catalan as well, where it also has the meaning of "dawn". [noted -ed]
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I don't like it much. Odd, since I adore its masculine counterpart, Albus.
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Thought I'd mention that the Gaelic word 'Alba', meaning Scotland is pronounced 'al-a-pa'. In the Spanish/Italian first name form it was also the name of Lord Byron's daughter (1817-1822), given to her by her mother Claire Clairmont, although Byron changed it to Clara Allegra. Don't know why Byron didn't like it though- I think it's lovely!
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Reminds me of Alphaba, the name of the Wicked Witch of the West in Wicked.
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Actually, her name is Elphaba, not Alphaba. That's why she's called Elphie, not ALphie.
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ALBA (Alianza Bolivariana para los pueblos de nuestra América) is a Latin American trade organisation.
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I had heard this name before, but I never really noticed it before seeing The Time-Traveler's Wife the other day. The character of Alba--a sweet, bright, adorable little girl with freckles--gave me a very good impression of this name. It has a nice sound, a pretty meaning, and it is simple but unique. A good name all around.
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It's sad that this name has been ruined by the arrogant and hated Jessica Alba, since it's very pretty.
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Kenneth MacAlpin, first King of Scotland, used the title King of Alba. This meaning of Alba was first used in reference to Britain but later came to mean Scotland specifically.
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Alba means "white" in Latin. In this form, it would be an adjective for words in the 1st declension.
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I don't like "Al" for a girl's nickname.
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I really like the name Alba although it is getting very famous in Spain. One of my best friends is named Alba and it fits her perfectly.
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After reading the Time Traveler's Wife, this has become my top girl's name. After a couple years, Jessica Alba will have faded away and this name will become usable (thank god).
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It's a very pretty name, but it reminds me too much of the actress Jessica Alba.
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In "The House of the Spirits (La Casa de los Espíritus)" a novel written by Isabel Allende, born 1942, Alba is Blanca's daughter and Clara's granddaughter. Together with her grandfather Esteban she tells the story using Clara's diary.
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In Audrey Niffenegger's novel 'The Time Traveler's Wife', Alba DeTamble is the daughter of the novel's two protagonists, Clare Abshire DeTamble and Henry DeTamble. Like her father, she is a CDP (Chrono-Displaced Person), who finds herself transported back and forth in time to different points in her life seemingly randomly.
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I lived in Spain in the late 1980s and early 1990s. I remember it becoming really popular in the 1990s.
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I think Alba is a special name - easy to pronounce in Spanish, Catalan & English! Important for me.
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Is also a last name like actress Jessica Alba.
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In Irish legend, Alba is the name commonly used for Scotland.
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Alba also means "white" and "fortress".
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While the name "Alba" does mean "dawn" in Spanish and Italian, and it is feminine in both languages, "Alba" is also a family name in my family, and should be listed as a masculine name in English.
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