Elda
Elda is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 18 births. Its best rank was 381st, in 1895.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 180.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1916250 births
- Best rank
- #381in 1895
- Since 1880
- 8,950people given the name
The story in the numbers
8,950 girls have been named Elda in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1916, with 250 births.
The name has all but left use: 18 births in 2024, against 250 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1928, and the 1920s alone account for 22%. It has spent 66 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Elda | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 148 | |
| 1890s | 376 | |
| 1900s | 558 | |
| 1910s | 1,791 | |
| 1920s | 1,934 | |
| 1930s | 1,019 | |
| 1940s | 673 | |
| 1950s | 565 | |
| 1960s | 480 | |
| 1970s | 370 | |
| 1980s | 279 | |
| 1990s | 302 | |
| 2000s | 230 | |
| 2010s | 155 | |
| 2020s | 70 |
In 1916, its biggest year
Elda was the 396th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1916 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1916.
Names that rose and fell with Elda
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Eunicepeak 1921
- Ionepeak 1920
- Vernapeak 1918
- Mariepeak 1920
- Elvirapeak 1920
- Inezpeak 1920
- Ionapeak 1918
- Leonapeak 1918
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.