Alba for a girl?

[StudentFuming]

Like the girl in 'Time Travellers Wife'

What do you think?

I do like it, thought about it for Dc2, but DH wasnt keen hes from Scotland and thought it was too try hard to be as scottish as possible

Lovely

Isn't that the name of the BBC Scottish tv channel? Just saying.

Love it. Close family member is an Alba and in her 20s. Beautiful name.

ArgyMargy, it's because Alba is the Gaelic word for Scotland.

OP! that is my favourite book ever and what i planned to call any DD of mine!

I know it from The House of The Spirits by Isabelle Allende. It's Latin for white and Spanish for Dawn IIRC. Her mum was called Blanca and her mum Clara.

Beautiful. Just lovely.

I Love it! It's one of my favourite names ever, however we live in scotland and its also a brand of cheap radios :( not ure if they even exist anymore but it was vetoed on that basis.

It's one of my favourite books too...

S'okay. I like Alma more.

Yes, my dc speak Gaelic. Alba (pronounced "all-a-ba") is Gaelic for Scotland. Also Italian for "white" I think.

I LOVE this name, I was introduced to a girl called Alba and the name really struck me and sounded beautiful :-)

It was the cheap brand in Argos. If your Walkman was an Alba, you knew it wouldn't last.

My Alba walkman lasted fine!

I love the name Alba. Gorgeous.

I like it. Though it really depends on the surname.

Gareth Bale's daughter is named it and it really just doesn't work with the surname imo.

I love it, it's beautiful. It's used quite often in Spain, it means Dawn.

It is a beautiful name

Cheap electrical goods brand.

And it looks so...............bulbous. Don't do it.

I like it.

Alba is a popular name in Spain - it means Dawn

I thought of Time Traveler's Wife too. The little girl is a lovely part of that book as she also had special powers. Go for it!

• adds to ever growing list of girls names.