Alto
Recorded 1881–1991 · United States
Alto was most popular in 1917, when 21 American babies were given the name — ranking #3,134 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 592 people named Alto.
Alto over time
How old is the name Alto?
Alto first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1881, which makes it about 144 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 63 of the 145 years since. It was last recorded in 1991.
How many people are named Alto?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 592 American births named Alto between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 111 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Alto in 2025?
Alto was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Alto a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Alto is mostly a boy’s name — 5.2% of the 592 Americans given it were girls and 94.8% were boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Alto?
Roughly 111 Americans named Alto are alive today — 19% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 71 years old, and half are between 64 and 80.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Alto is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org