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Placida

Girls' name

Feminine form of Placidus

Placida has been given to 158 babies in the U.S. since 1899. 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 1917, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Placida, 1955

1 in 803,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Placida: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Placidus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Placida means

Placida is a feminine form of Placidus.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Placida is used in Ancient Roman and Italian (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈplaː.t͡ʃi.da/ for Placida.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Placidus.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 158 girls were recorded with the name Placida between 1899 and 1955. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1917; its best national rank was #1,789 in 1899.

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.

How common is Placida?

Placida had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1955, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1955
1 in 803,000
5 of 4,014,099 births
Among girls only
1 in 391,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1955
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
556,473 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Placida 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 1955 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 556,473 children born in 1955 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Placida. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Placidas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Placida was born before 1923 — so the typical Placida is around 102 today.

Median birth year
1923
About 102 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
41.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
18.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
5
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1920s — 41.8% of all recorded uses (66).

Is Placida 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 1917 (13)
Years since peak
108
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,789
1899

Spellings of Placida

Placida is not the most common spelling — Lacinda is, with 85.4% against Placida's 14.6%.

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 Placida is used

Across 1910–2025, Placida was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 75,329 across all states with data.

11 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Mexico1 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. Placida has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Placida around the world

Where Placida 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
    1924–1930
    #1,246
    in 1930
  • South Australia
    1961–1961
    #665
    in 1961

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.

Placida 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
#1,789
1899
Peak year
1917
13 that year
First recorded
1899
Last recorded
1955
All-time count
158
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Placida

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

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Sibling names for Placida

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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