At a Glance
- Meaning
- Full of apples, apple place
- Origin
- Kazakh
- Gender
- Unisex
- Pronunciation
- ahl-MAH-tee
Almaty is a Kazakh unisex name meaning “full of apples, apple place”. It appears in our list of 225+ City Names for Babies With a World-Traveler Soul.
Meaning & Origin of Almaty
Meaning: Full of apples, apple place.
Origin: Kazakh.
A common claim: Widely repeated as meaning 'father of apples,' from the older name Alma-Ata. Actually: That's a popular mistranslation. The word is grammatically an adjective meaning something like 'full of apples,' not 'father of apples' -- that reading comes from a mistaken parsing of the Soviet-era name Alma-Ata.
Source: Wiktionary.
How to Pronounce Almaty
ahl-MAH-teeIPA /ælˈmɑːti/
Popularity of Almaty
Almaty doesn’t appear in U.S. Social Security birth records, which include every name given to at least five babies in a year — so it’s rare in the U.S.
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