📖 Über Alma
Alma entstammt dem Lateinischen (alma – "nährend", "seelenvoll") und ist im Spanischen gleichbedeutend mit "Seele". Der Name erlebte im 19. Jahrhundert — auch befeuert durch die Schlacht an der Alma 1854 — eine große Mode, geriet dann in Vergessenheit und feiert nun ein beeindruckendes Comeback: In Spanien belegt er seit 2021 Platz 9, in Frankreich 2024 sogar Platz 6. Kurz, klangvoll und zeitlos.
⭐ Berühmte Persönlichkeiten
- Alma Mahler — Austrian socialite, composer, and muse who was married to composer Gustav Mahler and later to architect Walter Gropius and writer Franz Werfel; a central figure in early 20th-century Viennese intellectual life.
- Alma Thomas — American abstract painter and the first African American woman to have a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art; celebrated for her vibrant mosaic-like colour fields.
- Alma Cogan — British pop singer of the 1950s and early 1960s, nicknamed "The Girl with the Laugh in Her Voice"; one of the highest-paid entertainers in Britain before the Beatles era.
- Alma Powell — American philanthropist and wife of U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell; co-founder of the America's Promise Alliance, dedicated to improving the lives of young people.
- Alma Deutscher — British child prodigy composer and violinist who composed her first opera at age seven and a full-length opera Cinderella at age ten, drawing international acclaim.