Entry № 387 · Latin origin

Alba Alba — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AL-buh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Dawn / white (Jessica Alba; Roman gens)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Latin)

A name that means "dawn / white (jessica alba; roman gens)".

Alba is from the Latin albus (white) — also the dawn in Italian and Spanish. 1152 BCE; pre-dated Rome by 400+ years.

Dawn / white.

The name in its native script.

Alba
Transliteration
Alba
Pronunciation
/ ˈæl.bə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Alba stands.

Alba does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Albas before her.

Real people
Jessica Alba
American actress + Honest Company founder.
born 1981
Duchess of Alba
Spanish noblewoman; 44+ aristocratic titles.
1926 – 2014
In fiction
Alba Longa
Legendary birthplace of Romulus + Remus.
c. 1152 BCE

Names connected to Alba.

The number behind Alba.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Alba reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.