Imelda
Imelda is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 42 births. Its best rank was 770th, in 1911.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 420.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1978149 births
- Best rank
- #770in 1911
- Since 1891
- 7,442people given the name
The story in the numbers
7,442 girls have been named Imelda in the United States since 1891, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1978, with 149 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1971, and the 1970s alone account for 17%. It has spent 30 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Imelda | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 33 | |
| 1900s | 105 | |
| 1910s | 457 | |
| 1920s | 597 | |
| 1930s | 476 | |
| 1940s | 412 | |
| 1950s | 666 | |
| 1960s | 786 | |
| 1970s | 1,283 | |
| 1980s | 897 | |
| 1990s | 748 | |
| 2000s | 510 | |
| 2010s | 286 | |
| 2020s | 186 |
In 1978, its biggest year
Imelda was the 947th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1978 were Jennifer, Melissa, Jessica, Amy and Heather. See all of 1978.
Names that rose and fell with Imelda
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lorinapeak 1986
- Angelitapeak 1975
- Margaritapeak 1957
- Melitapeak 1973
- Elviapeak 1991
- Alethiapeak 1973
- Josefinapeak 1930
- Carmonpeak 1968
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.