Alta

Proper noun

 * , a province of Canada.

Proper noun

 * 1)  possibly from, fairly common in the United States in the nineteenth century.
 * 2) * 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 named Alta, for her mother ) - "close onto twelve year old, ye might be spared ter go off home- - -