Alda
Alda is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 448th, in 1901.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1918191 births
- Best rank
- #448in 1901
- Since 1880
- 4,966people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,966 girls have been named Alda in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 191 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 191 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1924, and the 1920s alone account for 25%. It has spent 58 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Alda | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 143 | |
| 1890s | 290 | |
| 1900s | 389 | |
| 1910s | 1,076 | |
| 1920s | 1,240 | |
| 1930s | 612 | |
| 1940s | 399 | |
| 1950s | 283 | |
| 1960s | 163 | |
| 1970s | 145 | |
| 1980s | 95 | |
| 1990s | 80 | |
| 2000s | 19 | |
| 2010s | 26 | |
| 2020s | 6 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Alda was the 491st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1918 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Alda
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Leotapeak 1918
- Elmapeak 1918
- Mablepeak 1922
- Elvapeak 1918
- Ulapeak 1924
- Eulapeak 1919
- Athapeak 1918
- Inezpeak 1920
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.