Alba (first name)
Alba is a female given name .
origin
The origin of the name is complex and the result of an intertwining of different onomastic traditions. The root is the Latin alba, feminine from albus, which means 'white' or 'bright'. The word is believed to be of Etruscan origin. Alba was already used as a given name in Roman times and is partly passed down in the Middle Ages and has remained unchanged in Italian.
The name means ' dawn ' or 'daybreak' in Italian and Spanish .
distribution
The name is particularly common in northern Italy, Albania, Spain and South America.
variants
- Italian: Albarosa, Albachiara
- Spanish: Elba
- Albanian: Albesa
Well-known namesake
- Alba Luz Arbeláez Álvarez (* 1965), Colombian botanist
- Alba Arnova (1930–2018), Italian ballerina and film actress
- Alba August (* 1993), Swedish-Danish actress
- Alba Baptista (born 1997), Portuguese actress
- Alba Gaïa Bellugi (* 1995), French actress
- Alba de Céspedes (1911–1997), Cuban-Italian writer and journalist
- Alba D'Urbano (* 1955), Italian artist
- Alba Flores (* 1986), Spanish actress
- Alba Maiolini (1916–2005), Italian actress
- Alba Marbà (* 1990), Spanish reggae musician
- Alba Parietti (* 1961), Italian singer and actress
- Alba Quintanilla (* 1944), Venezuelan composer
- Alba Rico (* 1989), Spanish actress, dancer, model and singer
- Alba Rohrwacher (* 1979), Italian actress
- Alba Torrens (* 1989), Spanish basketball player
- Alba Ventura (* 1978), Catalan classical pianist and music teacher
- Alba Zaluar (1942–2019), Brazilian anthropologist
Individual evidence
- ↑ "alba" German translation de.langenscheidt.com