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Alta

Alta

A femalegiven name from Latin possibly fromLatinalta(“high”), fairly common in theUnited States in the nineteenth century.
- 1870 Mary Mapes Dodge:St. Nicholas:A Monthly Magazine for Boys and Girls: page 725 (Little Menan Light):
  "I'm thinkin', Marthy Ann, that as Altie's " ( she had been namedAlta, for her mother ) - "close onto twelve year old, ye might be spared ter go off home- - -
(rare)A malegiven name from Latin.
Atown withbystatus andmunicipality ofFinnmark,Norway.
Acensus-designated place inPlacer County,California,United States.

[1] U.S. Social Security Administration, accessed on December 15th, 2010: The first name Alta was included in the top 1000 female names in 1880-1956, and in the top 1000 male names in 1889, 1891, and 1895.

Alta on Norwegian Wikipedia

Alta (by) on Norwegian Wikipedia

Uncertain. There are several theories:^[1]

First attested in Danish in 1520 asAlthen.^[1]

Alta

atown withbystatus andmunicipality ofFinnmark,Norway
- 1520,Sommers indtects bogh anno domini mdxx (in Danish); quoted in “Indtægts-Regnskab for Bergens Kongsgaard Sommeren 1520.”, in H[enrik] J[ørgen] Huitfeldt-Kaas, editor,Norske Regnskaber og Jordebøger fra det 16de Aarhundrede (1514-1521), volume 1, Christiania: J. Chr. Gundersens Bogtrykkeri,1887, via National Library of Norway,page586:
  Thenne eftherscreffne fiisk. antwardet hid Torleff Askelsen effther Henric Foss afAlthen oc are Finne skat[.]
  [Denne etterskrevne fisk overleverte Torleff Askelsen hit etter Henric Foss avAlta og er finneskatt.]
  This requested fish was delivered here by Torleff Askelsen from Henric Foss ofAlta and is a Finn tax.

↑^1.0^1.1Jens Petter Nielsen (1990), “Forhistorie og middelalder”, inDe glemte århundrene 1520-1826 (Altas historie; 1) (in Norwegian Bokmål), Alta Kommune,→ISBN,pages37, 43-44