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Alda

Girls' name

Wise, old

Alda has been given to 4,976 babies in the U.S. since 1880. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1918, with 191 recorded.

Babies named Alda, 2023

1 in 552,000

Alda over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Alda: meaning, origin, and history

Wise, old

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Alda means

Alda means “wise, old”, associated with ald.

Origin, language, and formation

Alda is used in Faroese, Icelandic, Italian, Old English, Old Saxon and Portuguese.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Icelandic, Alda is pronounced [ˈalta].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,966 girls were recorded with the name Alda between 1880 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 191 in 1918; its best national rank was #448 in 1901.

In the United States, 10 boys were recorded with the name Alda between 1917 and 1921. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1917; its best national rank was #3,988 in 1917.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Alda?

Alda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 552,000
6 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 267,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
382,940 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alda sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,940 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aldas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alda was born before 1924 — so the typical Alda is around 101 today.

Median birth year
1924
About 101 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
25.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.0%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
817
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 25.0% of all recorded uses (1,240).

Is Alda rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1918 (191)
Years since peak
107
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#448
1901

Spellings of Alda

Alda is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 21.3% against Alda's 0.12%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Alda is used

Across 1910–2025, Alda was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 75,671 across all states with data. It was least common in Mississippi (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Pennsylvania1 in 16,667
  2. 2North Carolina1 in 20,000
  3. 3Massachusetts1 in 50,000
  4. 4California1 in 100,000
  5. 5Connecticut1 in 100,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 100,000
  7. 7Kansas1 in 100,000
  8. 8North Dakota1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Alda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Alda around the world

Where Alda ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1901–2024
    #4,366
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1959–1969
    #731
    in 1969

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Alda

People whose public names include Alda, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Alda in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Alda. Linked forms have their own page here.

EldaAldinaGeraldaEralda

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Alda by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#448
1901
Peak year
1918
191 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
4,966
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,988
1917
Peak year
1917
5 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
1921
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Alda

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

EldaGoldaAldenTildaImeldaZeldaHuldaNeldaVeldaNildaIldaGildaWildaValdaAldonaMeldaAldineMathildaHildaGriseldaAldeaMildaAldoraAlder

Names with a curve like Alda

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Alda, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

EthelynVergieDelphiaJohnieRayElmiraAdellClaudieMyrticeTressieEstellHortense

Sibling names for Alda

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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