Name Awesome

Almeda

Girls' name

From Arabic مائدة; literal meaning unconfirmed

Almeda has been given to 4,402 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 1921, with 135 recorded.

Babies named Almeda, 1998

1 in 613,000

Almeda over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Almeda: meaning, origin, and history

From Arabic مائدة; literal meaning unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Almeda means

Almeda is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Almeda is used in Cebuano.

Almeda comes through Spanish Almeda and Arabic مائدة.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,402 girls were recorded with the name Almeda between 1880 and 1998. Its highest annual count was 135 in 1921; its best national rank was #343 in 1883.

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 Almeda?

Almeda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1998, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1998
1 in 613,000
6 of 3,677,189 births
Among girls only
1 in 294,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1998
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
424,807 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Almeda 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 1998 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 424,807 children born in 1998 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Almeda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Almedas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Almeda was born before 1922 — so the typical Almeda is around 103 today.

Median birth year
1922
About 103 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
23.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.0%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
465
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 23.9% of all recorded uses (1,051).

Is Almeda 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1921 (135)
Years since peak
104
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#343
1883

Spellings of Almeda

Almeda is not the most common spelling — Alma is, with 40.5% against Almeda's 1.1%.

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 Almeda is used

Across 1910–2025, Almeda was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 87,991 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oklahoma1 in 20,000
  2. 2Pennsylvania1 in 25,000
  3. 3West Virginia1 in 25,000
  4. 4Arkansas1 in 33,333
  5. 5Tennessee1 in 33,333
  6. 6Kentucky1 in 50,000
  7. 7Ohio1 in 50,000
  8. 8Alabama1 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. Almeda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Notable people named Almeda

People whose public names include Almeda, 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.

Almeda 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
—
Best rank ever
#343
1883
Peak year
1921
135 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
1998
All-time count
4,402
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Almeda

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

AlmiraFreedaAlmetaMakedaJaedaSyedaAlminaLedaFriedaVaedaNedaEdaThedaAlmasLavedaVedaAlmediaAlmenaAlfredaFredaAlmyraCledaAlmettaAlmarie

Names with a curve like Almeda

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

EthelynVernieElmiraVergieClaudieDelphiaAlthaEstaEstellElnaMyrticeOcie

Sibling names for Almeda

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

Explore around Almeda

Top names of 1921, Almeda's peak yearThe 1920s in fullOther names that peaked in 1883Girls' names starting with A