Alma ( )
[Norman, p. 119.] or (according to Jones 1997) /'ælmə/) is an
English feminine given name, but has historically been used in the masculine form as well, sometimes in the form ''Almo''.
[Lang, p. 132.] The origin of the name is debated; it may have been derived from "
alma mater"
[ ("benevolent mother", a title used for the Virgin Mary, and in antiquity, for several goddesses).
It gained popularity after the ]Battle of Alma
The Battle of the Alma (short for Battle of the Alma River) was a battle in the Crimean War between an allied expeditionary force (made up of French, British, and Ottoman forces) and Russian forces defending the Crimean Peninsula on 20Septem ...
in the 19th century and appeared as a fashionable name for girls and a popular place name,[ but it has decreased in appearance in the 20th and 21st centuries. The name Alma also has several meanings in a variety of languages, and is generally translated to mean that the child "feeds one's soul" or "lifts the spirit".][Browder, p. 57.]
Origin
The exact origin of the name Alma is debated (cf. Hanks/Hodges 1990:'of uncertain origin'), but it is most likely derived (according to some sources), in the female form,[Grussi, p. 274.] from the Latin word ''almus'', which means "kind", "fostering", or "nourishing".[ Drosdowski (1974) differentiates between two different names: one derived from Spanish, the other derived from Germanic names with the element 'Amal'. It has been most familiarized by its use in the term alma mater,][ which means "fostering mother",] or "nourishing mother",[ and in modern times is most associated with a collegiate hymn or song, or to encompass the years in which a student earned their degree. Also, the Arabic words for "the water" and "on the water" are ''el-ma'' and ''al-ma'', respectively. It may also be of Greek derivation, where the word ''αλμη'' means "salt water". In Hebrew, Alma () means a young woman, particularly unmarried, and it appears in the Bible in the Old Testament, in the Book of Genesis 24:43.
]
Early appearances
It has been applied repeatedly for the title of goddesses, namely Diana and Ceres
Ceres most commonly refers to:
* Ceres (dwarf planet), the largest asteroid
* Ceres (mythology), the Roman goddess of agriculture
Ceres may also refer to:
Places
Brazil
* Ceres, Goiás, Brazil
* Ceres Microregion, in north-central Goiás ...
, as well as other deities of the light, earth, and day. Alma was used classically in connotation as a way to reflect the traditional female roles in providing nurture,[ following its derivation from its Latin root. It was introduced with minimal usage during the ]Italian Renaissance
The Italian Renaissance ( it, Rinascimento ) was a period in Italian history covering the 15th and 16th centuries. The period is known for the initial development of the broader Renaissance culture that spread across Europe and marked the trans ...
, as the likely result of a character by Edmund Spenser in his poem ''The Faerie Queene
''The Faerie Queene'' is an English epic poem by Edmund Spenser. Books IIII were first published in 1590, then republished in 1596 together with books IVVI. ''The Faerie Queene'' is notable for its form: at over 36,000 lines and over 4,000 sta ...
''. Alma, who is the head of the House of Temperance, is considered to parallel the spirit metaphorically.
On 20 September 1854 the Battle of Alma
The Battle of the Alma (short for Battle of the Alma River) was a battle in the Crimean War between an allied expeditionary force (made up of French, British, and Ottoman forces) and Russian forces defending the Crimean Peninsula on 20Septem ...
, named after the Alma River nearby, which was a war between the French, English, and Ottoman empires and the Russian empire[ was fought and ended. This battle is typically considered to be the first battle of the ]Crimean War
The Crimean War, , was fought from October 1853 to February 1856 between Russia and an ultimately victorious alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom and Piedmont-Sardinia.
Geopolitical causes of the war included the ...
. Alma is the Crimean Tatar word for "apple". The name had limited use for females prior to the war, and afterwards it began appearing in birth registers for both male and female, and in significantly higher frequency. Alma also came in conjunction with many terms related to the circumstances of the war, such as "Alma Victoria", "Alma Balaklava
Balaklava ( uk, Балаклáва, russian: Балаклáва, crh, Balıqlava, ) is a settlement on the Crimean Peninsula and part of the city of Sevastopol. It is an administrative center of Balaklava Raion that used to be part of the Cri ...
" and "Alma Inkerman
Inkerman ( uk, Інкерман, russian: Инкерман, crh, İnkerman) is a city in the Crimean peninsula. It is '' de facto'' within the federal city of Sevastopol within the Russian Federation, but '' de jure'' within Ukraine. It li ...
".[Murray, p. 348.] Primarily in West England,[Woldmar Ruoff, p. 799.] many were christened with the name Alma. The widespread use has been attributed to the extensive news coverage of the Crimean War.[Callary, p. 6.]
In the Book of Mormon
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, a collection of fifteen books first published in 1830 that is regarded as scripture by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, informally known as the LDS Church or Mormon Church, is a nontrinitarian Christian church that considers itself to be the restoration of the original church founded by Jesus Christ. The ch ...
, Alma is given as the name of two characters—a father and his son. The characters are marked by a love for and service of God and appear in the Book of Mosiah and in the Book of Alma.
The name Alma also appears in Irish folklore in the masculine form: the son of Nemed
Nemed or Nimeth (modern spelling: Neimheadh) is a character in medieval Irish legend. According to the ''Lebor Gabála Érenn'' (compiled in the 11th century), he was the leader of the third group of people to settle in Ireland: the ''Muintir Ne ...
was named "Alma One-Tooth",[O'Boyle, p. 150.] a noble prince who fought repeatedly for a respite in taxes issued by Conann on his people.
In the 1910 Census (Milan Texas Precinct 7), the name Alma appears within a family descended from Bohemia (or Czechoslovakia, depending on which other document is inspected).
Name statistics
Alma reached its highest popularity of usage in the year 1901, when it ranked No. 52 of most popular names for girls in the United States. In birth registers, this constituted .47% of the population,[ or roughly 1 in every 213 births. Its usage today has dropped into the thousands.][ It has increased in usage in recent years among parents seeking names with positive meanings for babies born during the ]Covid-19 pandemic
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.
In numerology, the name Alma corresponds to the number 9. The characteristics of this value mean compassion, charitableness, and civility; it is regarded as being the " Humanitarian".
Meaning
The name Alma, with its Latin origin, appears in various European languages, and has different meanings in each.[Sheehan, p. 25.] These varieties do not generally stray from the notion of the wise, nurturing mother, however.
*Arabic
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''Knowing'', ''Knowledgeable'', ''The Unbelievable but True''
*Aramaic
The Aramaic languages, short Aramaic ( syc, ܐܪܡܝܐ, Arāmāyā; oar, 𐤀𐤓𐤌𐤉𐤀; arc, 𐡀𐡓𐡌𐡉𐡀; tmr, אֲרָמִית), are a language family containing many varieties (languages and dialects) that originated in ...
''World''
* Azerbaijani''Apple''
* Bashkir''Apple'' (''also the ancient female Bashkir name'')
* Chuvash''Apple'' (''ulma'')
* Crimean Tatar''Apple''
*Finnish
Finnish may refer to:
* Something or someone from, or related to Finland
* Culture of Finland
* Finnish people or Finns, the primary ethnic group in Finland
* Finnish language, the national language of the Finnish people
* Finnish cuisine
See also ...
''Fruit'' (''hedelmä'')
* Gagauz''Apple''
*Gothic
Gothic or Gothics may refer to:
People and languages
*Goths or Gothic people, the ethnonym of a group of East Germanic tribes
**Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths
**Crimean Gothic, the Gothic language spoken b ...
''Working One'', ''Brave One''
*Greek
Greek may refer to:
Greece
Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
*Greeks, an ethnic group.
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family.
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...
''Leap''
*Hebrew
Hebrew (; ; ) is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Historically, it is one of the spoken languages of the Israelites and their longest-surviving descendants, the Jews and Samaritans. It was largely preserved ...
''Maiden'', ''Young woman''
* Hungarian''Apple''
*Irish
Irish may refer to:
Common meanings
* Someone or something of, from, or related to:
** Ireland, an island situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe
***Éire, Irish language name for the isle
** Northern Ireland, a constituent unit ...
''Apple'' (''ull'')
*Italian
Italian(s) may refer to:
* Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries
** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom
** Italian language, a Romance language
*** Regional Ita ...
''The Spirit'', ''Soul''
* Kalmyk''Apple'' (''almn'')
*Karachay-Balkar
Karachay-Balkar (, ), or Mountain Turkic (, ), is a Turkic language spoken by the Karachays and Balkars in Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay–Cherkessia, European Russia, as well as by an immigrant population in Afyonkarahisar Province, Turkey. ...
''Apple''
* Karaim''Apple''
* Karakalpak''Apple''
* Kazakh''Apple''
* Komi''Apple'' (''ulmö'')
* Kumyk''Apple''
* Kyrgyz''Apple''
*Latin
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''The Nourishing One'', ''Kind'', ''Life Giving'', ''Gentle, Loving, Bounteous One'' and ''The Spiritually Supportive One''
*Latin
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''Apple, an arboreal fruit'' (''mālum'')
* Mari''Apple'' (''olma'')
* Mongolian''Apple'' (Apple in Mongolia "Alim")
* Nogai''Apple''
*Portuguese
Portuguese may refer to:
* anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal
** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods
** Portuguese language, a Romance language
*** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language
** Portu ...
''The Spirit'', ''Soul''
*Spanish
Spanish might refer to:
* Items from or related to Spain:
**Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain
**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries
**Spanish cuisine
Other places
* Spanish, Ontario, Can ...
''The Spirit'', ''Soul''
*Tatar
The Tatars ()[Tatar]
in the Collins English Dictionary is an umbrella term for different ''Apple''
* Turkish''Apple'' (''elma'')
* Turkmen''Apple''
* Udmurt''Apple'' (''ulmo'')
* Urum''Apple''
* Uyghur''Apple''
* Uzbek''Apple'' (''olma'')
In the Hebrew Bible
The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh (;["Tanach"](_blank)
'' Almah
''Almah'' ( ''‘almā'', plural: ''‘ălāmōṯ''), from a root implying the vigour of puberty, is a Hebrew word meaning a young woman ripe for marriage; despite its importance to the account of the virgin birth of Jesus in the Gospel of Ma ...
means maiden - a young girl or a young woman. In the Septuagint, the word is often rendered as parthenos ('virgin'), most famously in Isaiah 7:14, which is quoted in Matthew 1:23 as a prophecy about Jesus being born of the Virgin Mary
Mary; arc, ܡܪܝܡ, translit=Mariam; ar, مريم, translit=Maryam; grc, Μαρία, translit=María; la, Maria; cop, Ⲙⲁⲣⲓⲁ, translit=Maria was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Joseph and the mother of ...
.
People
Women
* Alma Adams (born 1946), American politician and educator
*Alma Adamkienė
Alma Adamkienė (née Nutautaitė; February 10, 1927) is a Lithuanian philologist and philanthropist. She is the wife of the former President of Lithuania, Valdas Adamkus, and was First Lady during his two terms (1998–2003 and 2004–2009). She ...
(born 1928), Lithuanian philologist and philanthropist
* Alma Alexander (born 1965), American writer
* Alma Allen (resistance member), Danish resistance member
*Alma Allen (politician)
Alma Toliver Allen (born April 7, 1939) is a Democratic Party (United States), Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives for District 131 in Harris County, Texas, Harris County, Texas. She became a representative in 2004 after servi ...
(born 1939), American politician
* Alma Allen (artist) (born 1970), American sculptor
* Alma Åkermark (1853–1933), Swedish feminist
*Alma Bella
Alma Bella (13 March 1910, Batangas City, Batangas, Philippines – 11 May 2012, New York City) was a Filipina
Filipinos ( tl, Mga Pilipino) are the people who are citizens of or native to the Philippines. The majority of Filipinos to ...
(1910–2012), Filipino actress
*Alma Beltran
Alma Leonor Beltran (August 22, 1919 – June 9, 2007) was a Mexican-American film, stage and television actress. She appeared in 82 films between 1945 and 2002. In addition to her film roles, Beltran played over 80 roles in film and television, ...
(1919–2007), Mexican film actress
* Alma Bennett (1914–1958), American film actress
*Alma Birk
Alma Lillian Birk, Baroness Birk (née Wilson; 22 September 1917 – 29 December 1996) was a British journalist, Labour Party politician and Government minister.
Early life and education
Alma Lillian Wilson was born on 22 September 1917 in B ...
(1917–1996), British journalist and politician
* Alma W. Byrd (1924–2017), American politician
*Alma Čardžić
Alma Čardžić (; born 10 March 1968) is a Bosnian singer, best known internationally for her participation in the Eurovision Song Contests in 1994 and 1997.
Biography
Born in Maglaj she demonstrated a flair for music even as a child. When she ...
(born 1968), Bosnian singer
* Alma Carroll (born 1924), American actress
* Alma Carlisle (born 1927), American architect
*Alma Cogan
Alma Angela Cohen Cogan (19 May 1932 – 26 October 1966) was an English singer of traditional pop in the 1950s and early 1960s. Dubbed the "Girl with the Giggle in Her Voice", she was the highest paid British female entertainer of her era.
C ...
(1932–1966), English singer
* Alma Cook (Alma; born 1991), American singer
*Alma Delfina
Alma Delfina (née Alma Delfina Martínez Ortega) is a Mexican actress.
Acting career
Sister of the director Gonzalo Martinez Ortega, writer Mario Iván Martínez and the actresses Socorro Bonilla and Evangelina Martínez. She is also the aun ...
(born 1954), Mexican actress
*Alma Denny
Alma Denenholz Kaplan (1906 – 1 March 2003) was an American poet and syndicated columnist who wrote under the pseudonym Alma Denny.
Life and career
Denny was born Alma Denenholz in Far Rockaway in New York City, the eldest of ten children. Sh ...
(1906–2003), American columnist
*Alma Deutscher
Alma Elizabeth Deutscher (born 19 February 2005) is a British composer, pianist and violinist. A child prodigy, Deutscher composed her first piano sonata at the age of five. At seven, she completed the short opera, ''The Sweeper of Dreams''. A ...
(born 2005), English composer and musician
* Alma Dufour (born 1990), French politician
* Alma Evans-Freke (1931–2017), New Zealand television personality
* Alma Fahlstrøm (1863–1946), Norwegian theatre actress, director and manager
* Alma Francis, American actress and singer
*Alma Delia Fuentes
Alma Delia Susana Fuentes González (22 January 1937 – 2 April 2017) was a Mexican actress of film, television, and theatre.
Career
Fuentes began her career as a child actress. In 1951, she was nominated for an Ariel Award for Best Youth Perfor ...
(1937–2017), Mexican actress
* Alma Galarza, Puerto Rican singer
*Alma Garcia
Alma García (born 1970) is an American short story writer.
Life
Alma Garcia grew up in West Texas, and has lived most of her life in New Mexico. She graduated from the University of Arizona with an MFA, and afterward worked at the Secret Garden ...
(born 1970), American writer
*Alma Gluck
Alma Gluck (May 11, 1884October 27, 1938) was a Romanian-born American soprano.
Biography
Gluck was born as Reba Feinsohn to a Jewish family in Iași, Romania, the daughter of Zara and Leon Feinsohn. Gluck moved to the United States at a you ...
(1884–1938), American opera singer
* Alma Goatley (1887–1969), British composer
* Alma Guillermoprieto (born 1949), Mexican journalist
*Alma Hanlon
Alma Hanlon (April 30, 1890 – October 26, 1977) was an American silent film actress. Hanlon's film career was short, lasting only four years. She appeared in twenty-three films. Her first film role was as Dorothy Dare in ''The Fixer'' (1915) ...
(1890–1977), American film actress
*Alma Hernandez
Alma Hernandez (born April 11, 1993) is an American politician serving as a Democratic member of the Arizona House of Representatives for the 20th district. Hernandez was elected in 2018 to succeed Macario Saldate, who was term-limited. She w ...
, American politician
*Alma Hinding
Alma Hinding (1882–1981) was a Danish film actress of the silent era.Milne p.181 She acted in films for Nordisk Film during its most successful period.
Selected filmography
* ''Atlantis'' (1913)
* ''The Secret of the Desert
''The Secret of ...
(1882–1981), Danish film actress
* Alma Hjelt (1853–1907), Finnish women's rights activist
* Alma Hunt (1909–2008), American religious leader
* Alma Hunt (1910–1999), Bermudian and Scottish cricketer
* Alma Jeets (1896–1979), Estonian politician
*Alma Jodorowsky
Alma Jodorowsky (born 26 September 1991) is a French actress, fashion model and singer.
Early life
Jodorowsky is the granddaughter of Alejandro Jodorowsky, movie director and author born to Jewish Ukrainian émigrés in Chile. Her father is ac ...
(born 1991), French actress, model and singer
* Alma Kar (1908–1992), Polish actress
* Alma Karlin (1889–1950), Slovene-Austrian author
*Alma Kruger
Alma Kruger (September 13, 1871 – April 5, 1960) was an American actress.
Career
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1871 (or 1868 according to other sources), Kruger had a long career on stage before appearing in films. From 1907 to 193 ...
(1868/1871–1960), American actress
* Alma Kuula (1884-1941), Finnish singer
* Alma Lee (1914-2000), Swiss-born naturalized British philatelist
*Alma Mahler
Alma Maria Mahler Gropius Werfel (born Alma Margaretha Maria Schindler; 31 August 1879 – 11 December 1964) was an Austrian composer, author, editor, and socialite. At 15, she was mentored by Max Burckhard. Musically active from her early yea ...
(1879–1964), Austrian socialite and composer
* Alma Martínez (footballer) (born 1981), Mexican footballer
*Alma Martinez (actress)
Alma Martinez (born 18 March 1953) is a Mexican-American actress, stage director, and professor of theatre. She is best known for her roles in film and television shows including the Peabody Award winning drama series '' The Bridge'' with De ...
(born 1953), American actress
* Alma McClelland (1921–2000), American poker player
*Alma Moodie
Alma Mary Templeton Moodie (12 September 18987 March 1943) was an Australian violinist who established an excellent reputation in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s. She was regarded as the foremost female violinist during the inter-war years, and s ...
(1898–1943), Australian violinist
*Alma Moreno
Venesa Moreno Lacsamana (born; May 25, 1959), professionally known as Alma Moreno, is a Filipina actress and politician.
Early life
Moreno was born in Cervantes, Ilocos Sur to her parents Frank Lacsamana, from Pampanga, and Jean Moreno.
Acting ...
(born 1959), Filipina actress and politician
* Alma Muriel (1951–2014), Mexican actress
* Alma Murray (1854–1945), English actress
* Alma Ostra-Oinas (1886–1960), Estonian journalist, writer and politician
* Alma Pedersen (born 2006), Danish rhythmic gymnast
* Alma Pihl (1888–1976), Finnish jeweller
*Alma Powell
Alma Vivian Powell ( Johnson; born October 27, 1937) is an American audiologist and the widow of military and political figure Colin Powell, whom she married on August 25, 1962.
Biography
She graduated from Fisk University in Nashville, Tenne ...
(born 1937), American audiologist
* Alma Prica (born 1962), Croatian actress
* Alma Qeramixhi (born 1963), Albanian heptathlete
* Alma Redlinger (1924–2017), Romanian painter
*Alma Reville
Alma Lucy Reville, Lady Hitchcock (14 August 1899 – 6 July 1982), was an English director, editor, and screenwriter. She was the wife of the film director Alfred Hitchcock. She collaborated on scripts for her husband's films, including '' Sha ...
(1899–1982), English film director, screenwriter and editor, wife of Alfred Hitchcock
* Alma Rosé (1906–1944), Austrian violinist
*Alma Rubens
Alma Rubens (born Alma Genevieve Reubens; February 19, 1897 – January 21, 1931) was an American film actress and stage performer.
Rubens began her career in the mid 1910s. She quickly rose to stardom in 1916 after appearing opposite Douglas F ...
(1897–1931), American actress
* Alma Siedhoff-Buscher (1899-1944), Bauhaus trained German designer
*Alma Söderhjelm
Alma Söderhjelm (10 May 1870 – 16 March 1949) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish historian and the first female professor in Finland.
Academic career
After gaining an M.A. in history, Söderhjelm spent three years in Paris, preparing her do ...
(1870–1949), Swedish-Finnish historian
*Alma de Bretteville Spreckels
Alma de Bretteville Spreckels (March 24, 1881 – August 7, 1968) was a wealthy socialite and philanthropist in San Francisco, California. She was known both as "Big Alma" (she was tall) and "The Great Grandmother of San Francisco". Among her ma ...
(1881–1968), American socialite and art collector
* Alma G. Stallworth (1932 – 2020), American politician
* Alma Sundquist (1872–1940), Swedish physician and gynaecologist
* Alma Taylor (1895–1974), British actress
* Alma Tell (1898–1937), American actress
*Alma Thomas
Alma Woodsey Thomas (September 22, 1891 – February 24, 1978) was an African-American artist and teacher who lived and worked in Washington, D.C., and is now recognized as a major American painter of the 20th century. Thomas is best known for t ...
(1891–1978), American painter
* Alma Vītola (born 1992), Latvian long-distance runner
* Alma Vogt (born 1925), Australian cricket player
* Alma Wagen (1878–1967), American mountain climber
* Alma Bridwell White (1862–1946), American religious leader
* Alma Zack (born 1970), Israeli actress and comedienne
*Alma Zadić
Alma Zadić (; born 24 May 1984) is a Bosnian-born Austrian lawyer and politician of the Green Party. She has been serving as Minister of Justice since 7 January 2020 in the governments of Chancellors Sebastian Kurz, Alexander Schallenberg and K ...
(born 1984), Austrian politician
* Alma Ziegler (1918–2005), American baseball player
* Alma Zohar (born 1977), Israeli musician
Men
* Alma Claude Burlton Cull (1880–1931), English painter
*Alma Richards
Alma Wilford Richards (February 20, 1890 – April 3, 1963) was an American athlete. He was the first resident of Utah to win a gold medal at the Olympic Games, in 1912, in the running high jump event.
Jumping
Born in Parowan, Utah, Alma Richa ...
(1890–1963), American Latter-day Saint high jumper
* Alma Sonne (1884–1977), American Latter-day Saint general authority
*Alma O. Taylor
Alma or ALMA may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* ''Alma'' (film), a 2009 Spanish short animated film
* ''Alma'' (Oswald de Andrade novel), 1922
* ''Alma'' (Le Clézio novel), 2017
* ''Alma'' (play), a 1996 drama by Joshua Sobol about Alma ...
(1882–1947), American Latter-day Saint missionary and translator
Mormon religious figures
* Alma the Younger
According to the Book of Mormon, Alma, the son of Alma () was a Nephite prophet often referred to as Alma the Younger to distinguish him from his father, who is often referred to as Alma the Elder. These appellations, "the Younger" and "the Elde ...
, a prophet according to the Book of Mormon
** Alma the Elder
According to the Book of Mormon, Alma () was a Nephite prophet who established the Church of Jesus Christ in the Americas during the reign of the wicked King Noah. One of the Book of Mormon's greatest figures, he is sometimes referred to as Al ...
, his father, also a prophet
Fictional characters
*Alma Armas, in the video game ''VA-11 Hall-A
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*Alma Beoulve, in the video game ''Final Fantasy Tactics
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''
* Alma Bonnet, fictional daughter of the real life Stede and Mary Bonnet in the television series ''Our Flag Means Death
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''
*Alma Candela, title character of '' Alma and How She Got Her Name'', a 2018 picture book by Juana Martinez-Neal
*Alma Coin, in the novel ''Mockingjay
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*Alma Elson, in the movie ''Phantom Thread
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*Alma Dray, in the movie '' Now You See Me''
*Alma Garret, later Ellsworth, in the HBO series '' Deadwood''
* Alma Gutierrez, in the American television series ''The Wire
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* Alma Halliwell, in the soap opera ''Coronation Street''
*Alma Hodge
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, in the soap opera ''Desperate Housewives''
*Alma Jinnai, in the Japanese anime ''Jewelpet Tinkle'' - see List of Jewelpet Twinkle episodes
*Alma Karma, an artificial human in the Japanese anime and manga series '' D.Gray-man''
*Alma Madrigal, from the 2021 Disney
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film ''Encanto
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''
*Alma Montemayor, protagonist of '' Porque el amor manda''
*Alma LeFay Peregrine, the headmistress in the Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
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novel series
*Alma Singer, in the novel ''The History of Love
''The History of Love: A Novel'' is the 2005 novel by the American writer Nicole Krauss.The book was a 2006 finalist for the Orange Prize for Fiction and won the 2008 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing for fiction.
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*Alma Wade
Alma Wade is the main antagonist and mascot of the ''F.E.A.R.'' series of first-person shooter horror video games by Monolith Productions. ''F.E.A.R.'' was introduced in 2005. The plot of the series revolves around the mystery of Alma. She is a ...
, an antagonist from the game ''F.E.A.R.''
*Alma Walker, in the television series '' American Horror Story: Asylum''
*Alma Whittaker, in the novel ''The'' ''Signature of All Things''
*Alma Winemiller, protagonist of Tennessee Williams' play ''Summer and Smoke
''Summer and Smoke'' is a two-part, thirteen-scene play by Tennessee Williams, completed in 1948. He began working on the play in 1945 as ''Chart of Anatomy'', derived from his short stories "Oriflamme" and the then-work-in-progress "Yellow Bir ...
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*Alma Winograd-Diaz, protagonist of the Amazon Prime series '' Undone''.
*Alma, main character in Ingmar Bergman's 1966 film ''Persona
A persona (plural personae or personas), depending on the context, is the public image of one's personality, the social role that one adopts, or simply a fictional character. The word derives from Latin, where it originally referred to a theatr ...
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*Alma, a Greater Fiend from the video game ''Ninja Gaiden''
*Alma, in the television series '' The Handmaids Tale''
*Alma, the psi dragonling and soul familiar to Ritcher, in the book series “The Land”
*Alma, the mother of Historia Reiss in the anime television series and manga '' Attack on Titan''
*Alma, the titular character in '' Alma’s Way''
*Alma, the mother of Kamila and the wife of Jowd in '' Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective''
Variants
In language
*AlumitEnglish
English usually refers to:
* English language
* English people
English may also refer to:
Peoples, culture, and language
* ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England
** English national ide ...
, Hebrew
Hebrew (; ; ) is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Historically, it is one of the spoken languages of the Israelites and their longest-surviving descendants, the Jews and Samaritans. It was largely preserved ...
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*Amalia]Hebrew
Hebrew (; ; ) is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Historically, it is one of the spoken languages of the Israelites and their longest-surviving descendants, the Jews and Samaritans. It was largely preserved ...
, German
German(s) may refer to:
* Germany (of or related to)
** Germania (historical use)
* Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language
** For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law
**Ge ...
, Scandinavian, Czech
Czech may refer to:
* Anything from or related to the Czech Republic, a country in Europe
** Czech language
** Czechs, the people of the area
** Czech culture
** Czech cuisine
* One of three mythical brothers, Lech, Czech, and Rus'
Places
* Czech, ...
, Hungarian, Italian
Italian(s) may refer to:
* Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries
** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom
** Italian language, a Romance language
*** Regional Ita ...
*Almeta, AlmettaAfrican American.[Sheehan, p. 26.]
*Aerma (阿 爾 馬)Chinese
Chinese can refer to:
* Something related to China
* Chinese people, people of Chinese nationality, citizenship, and/or ethnicity
**''Zhonghua minzu'', the supra-ethnic concept of the Chinese nation
** List of ethnic groups in China, people of ...
.[Liu, p. 114.]
Abbreviations for
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*AmelbergaEnglish.[
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References
Sources
Drosdowski, Günther. 1974. Lexikon der Vornamen. 2nd ed. Mannheim (etc.). Dudenverlag.
Hanks, Patrick and Flavia Hodges. 1990. A dictionary of first names. OUP.
Jones, Daniel. 1997. English pronouncing dictionary. 15th ed. Ed. by Peter Roach & James Hartman Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Press
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