Wilda
Wilda is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 327th, in 1926.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1926411 births
- Best rank
- #327in 1926
- Since 1880
- 12,758people given the name
The story in the numbers
12,758 girls have been named Wilda in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1926, with 411 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 411 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1929, and the 1920s alone account for 29%. It has spent 74 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Wilda | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 123 | |
| 1890s | 309 | |
| 1900s | 534 | |
| 1910s | 2,101 | |
| 1920s | 3,643 | |
| 1930s | 2,618 | |
| 1940s | 1,699 | |
| 1950s | 993 | |
| 1960s | 431 | |
| 1970s | 154 | |
| 1980s | 82 | |
| 1990s | 52 | |
| 2000s | 6 | |
| 2010s | 8 | |
| 2020s | 5 |
In 1926, its biggest year
Wilda was the 327th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1926 were Mary, Dorothy, Betty, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1926.
Names that rose and fell with Wilda
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Ouidapeak 1924
- Florinepeak 1921
- Genevapeak 1924
- Ardellpeak 1922
- Marianpeak 1924
- Claricepeak 1921
- Rebapeak 1925
- Allenepeak 1926
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.