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Emelda

Girls' name

All, whole + battle, through Imelda

Emelda has been given to 1,396 babies in the U.S. since 1907. 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 1926, with 34 recorded.

Babies named Emelda, 2019

1 in 694,000

Emelda over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Emelda: meaning, origin, and history

All, whole + battle, through Imelda

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Emelda means

Emelda belongs to the name family reached through Emelda → Imelda. Its meaning is “all, whole + battle”.

Origin, language, and formation

Emelda is used in Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Imelda.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Emelda is pronounced /eˈmelda/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,396 girls were recorded with the name Emelda between 1907 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 34 in 1926; its best national rank was #1,171 in 1909.

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 Emelda?

Emelda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019
1 in 694,000
5 of 3,472,229 births
Among girls only
1 in 336,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2019
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
481,354 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Emelda 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 2019 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 481,354 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Emelda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Emeldas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Emelda was born before 1940 — so the typical Emelda is around 85 today.

Median birth year
1940
About 85 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
20.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.1%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
527
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1920s — 20.6% of all recorded uses (288).

Is Emelda 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 1926 (34)
Years since peak
99
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
44.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,171
1909

Spellings of Emelda

Emelda is not the most common spelling — Amelia is, with 53.5% against Emelda's 0.27%.

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 Emelda is used

Across 1910–2025, Emelda was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 4,000 girls, against 1 in 41,376 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

025 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 4,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 in —

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

Emelda around the world

Where Emelda 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
    2016–2016
    #5,785
    in 2016
  • France
    1917–1924
    #1,143
    in 1924

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Emelda 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
#1,171
1909
Peak year
1926
34 that year
First recorded
1907
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
1,396
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Emelda

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

EmelinEmelieEmelynEmeliEmersenEmellyEmerlyEmelinaEmeriEmereeEmerieEmelineEmerynEmeliaTildaEmerlynEmeraldEmeraldaEmelynnAwildaEmersynnEmerleeImeldaEmerii

Sibling names for Emelda

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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