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Elda

#5,971 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Hilda

Elda has been given to 9,012 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #5,971 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1916, with 250 recorded.

Babies named Elda, 2025

1 in 166,000

Elda over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Elda: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Hilda

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Elda means

Elda is a form of Hilda.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Elda → Hilda. The family’s meaning is “battle”, recorded in English with the source elements hild.

Origin, language, and formation

Elda is used in Cebuano and Italian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Hilda.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,970 girls were recorded with the name Elda between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 250 in 1916; its best national rank was #381 in 1895.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,404 in 2020 to #5,971 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,528 in 2015 to #5,971 in 2025.

In the United States, 42 boys were recorded with the name Elda between 1912 and 1931. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1912; its best national rank was #2,354 in 1912.

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 Elda?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 166,000
20 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 80,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,971
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
114,896 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Elda 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 2025 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 114,896 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Elda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Eldas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Elda was born before 1928 — so the typical Elda is around 97 today.

Median birth year
1928
About 97 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
21.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.0%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
2,471
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 21.6% of all recorded uses (1,934).

Is Elda 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
+491
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+433
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+557
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.05×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
8.0%
Peak was 1916 (250)
Years since peak
109
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#381
1895

Spellings of Elda

Elda is not the most common spelling — Emma is, with 19.3% against Elda's 0.22%.

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 Elda is used

Across 1910–2025, Elda was most concentrated in North Dakota — about 1 in 7,692 girls, against 1 in 26,736 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

013 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1North Dakota1 in 7,692
  2. 2Kansas1 in 9,091
  3. 3Idaho1 in 10,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 10,000
  5. 5Nebraska1 in 11,111
  6. 6Wisconsin1 in 11,111
  7. 7Iowa1 in 12,500
  8. 8Utah1 in 12,500

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. Elda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Elda around the world

Where Elda 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.

  • England & Wales
    1999–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • France
    1903–2025
    #3,316
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2011–2017
    #3,407
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1955–1983
    #686
    in 1983

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Elda

People whose public names include Elda, 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.

Elda in other languages

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

AldaIldaEldina

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

Elda by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,971
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 433
Best rank ever
#381
1895
Peak year
1916
250 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,970
Count in 2025
20

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,354
1912
Peak year
1912
6 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
1931
All-time count
42
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Elda

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

GoldaZeldaNeldaImeldaAldaGildaVeldaTildaEldoraWildaHuldaHildaEldanaGriseldaNildaIldaMathildaValdaMatildaMeldaMildaAwildaEmeldaRelda

Names with a curve like Elda

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

MaurineGarnetUnaIolaAlineEnidRayAlleneAdellHarrietteIdellaIone

Sibling names for Elda

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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