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Altina

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Altina has been given to 56 babies in the U.S. since 1961. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1963, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Altina, 2008

1 in 786,000

Altina over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Altina: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Altina means

Altina is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Altina is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 56 girls were recorded with the name Altina between 1961 and 2008. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1963; its best national rank was #5,305 in 1963.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Altina?

Altina had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2008, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2008
1 in 786,000
5 of 3,930,727 births
Among girls only
1 in 378,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2008
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
544,916 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Altina sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2008 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 544,916 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Altina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Altinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Altina was born before 1972 — so the typical Altina is around 53 today.

Median birth year
1972
About 53 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
39.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
21.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
56
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 39.3% of all recorded uses (22).

Is Altina rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1963 (7)
Years since peak
62
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,305
1963

Spellings of Altina

Altina is not the most common spelling — Tina is, with 30.4% against Altina's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Altina around the world

Where Altina ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2003–2006
    #5,061
    in 2006
  • France
    2004–2013
    #6,554
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Altina by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#5,305
1963
Peak year
1963
7 that year
First recorded
1961
Last recorded
2008
All-time count
56
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Altina

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Altina

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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