Erda
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Erda has been given to 15 babies in the U.S. since 1914. 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 1914, with 5 recorded.
Babies named Erda, 1936
1 in 416,000
Erda over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Erda?
Erda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1936, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1936
- 1 in 416,000
- 5 of 2,077,561 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 208,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1936
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 288,012 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Erda sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1936 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 288,012 children born in 1936 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Erda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Erdas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Erda was born before 1920 — so the typical Erda is around 105 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1910s
- 33.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1910s — 33.3% of all recorded uses (5).
Is Erda 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1914 (5)
- Years since peak
- 111
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Erda
Erda is not the most common spelling — Emma is, with 19.9% against Erda's <0.01%.
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.
Erda around the world
Where Erda 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 & Wales2017–2017#5,765in 2017
- France2009–2013#5,528in 2013
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.
Erda by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Erda
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Erda
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.