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Uda

Girls' name

Possibly newborn

Uda has been given to 11 babies in the U.S. since 1919. 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 6 recorded.

Babies named Uda, 1921

1 in 389,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Uda: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly newborn

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Uda means

Uda may mean “newborn”, associated with euþą.

Origin, language, and formation

Uda is used in Old Dutch and Old English.

Uda comes through Proto-Germanic *euþą.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Old English, Uda is pronounced /ˈuː.dɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11 girls were recorded with the name Uda between 1919 and 1921. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1921; its best national rank was #5,052 in 1921.

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 Uda?

Uda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1921, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1921
1 in 389,000
6 of 2,334,460 births
Among girls only
1 in 206,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1921
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
269,689 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Uda 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 1921 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 269,689 children born in 1921 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Uda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Udas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Uda was born before 1921 — so the typical Uda is around 104 today.

Median birth year
1921
About 104 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
54.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 54.5% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Uda 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 1921 (6)
Years since peak
104
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#5,052
1921

Uda 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
#5,052
1921
Peak year
1921
6 that year
First recorded
1919
Last recorded
1921
All-time count
11
Count in 2025
Under 5

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Sibling names for Uda

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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